Deuteronomy 22:28

When a man finds a girl, a virgin who is not betrothed, and has caught her, and lain with her, and they have been found,

Literal Standard Version

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

27for he found her in a field, [and when] she has cried—the girl who is betrothed—then she has no savior.

29then the man who is lying with her has given fifty pieces of silver to the father of the girl, and she is to him for a wife; because that he has humbled her, he is not able to send her away [for] all his days.

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Cross References

Exodus 22:16And when a man entices a virgin who [is] not betrothed, and has lain with her, he certainly endows her to himself for a 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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