Exodus 22:17Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers

Douay-RheimsHebrew (Masoretic text)

If the maid's father will not give her to him, he shall give money according to the dowry, which virgins are wont to receive.
Douay-Rheims

מְכַשֵּׁפָ֖ה לֹ֥א תְחַיֶּֽה׃
Hebrew (Masoretic text)

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One Church Father comments on this verse

Wlastow G.K.

19th centuryCommentator

A man who enticed an engaged woman was to be executed (Deut. 22: 23-27); if a girl who was not engaged was violated, her father was to receive a payment of fifty shekels of silver, and the violator was required to marry her, with no provision for divorce (Deut. 22: 28, 29).

Cross references

Passages read together with this verse.

Gen 34:12Raise the dowry, and ask gifts, and I will gladly give what you shall demand: only give me this damsel to wife.
1 Sam 18:25And Saul said: Speak thus to David: The king desireth not any dowry, but only a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies. Now Saul thought to deliver David into the hands of the Philistines.
Deut 22:29He that lay with her shall give to the father of the maid fifty sicles of silver, and shall have her to wife, because he hath humbled her: he may not put her away all the days of his life.
Deut 7:3Neither shalt thou make marriages with them. Thou shalt not give thy daughter to his son, nor take his daughter for thy son:
Deut 7:4For she will turn away thy son from following me, that he may rather serve strange gods, and the wrath of the Lord will be kindled, and will quickly destroy thee.
Gen 23:16And when Abraham had heard this, he weighed out the money that Ephron had asked, in the hearing of the children of Heth, four hundred sicles of silver, of common current money.