Deuteronomy 22:28

If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, who is not espoused, and taking her, lie with her, and the matter come to judgment :

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;

In Context

27She was alone in the field: she cried, and there was no man to help her.

29He that lay with her shall give to the father of the maid fifty sides 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.

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Cross References

Exodus 22:16If a man seduce a virgin not yet espoused, and lie with her: he shall endow her, and have her to wife.

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 22:14-30

The Punishment of Fornication. ( b. c. 1451.) 13 If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her, 14 And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid: 15 Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate: 16 And the damsel's father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and… Read the whole commentary →

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