Exodus 22:17 BSB — MannaFest

Exodus 22:17

If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, the man still must pay an amount comparable to the bridal price of a virgin.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

KJV

If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

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Commentary

1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

If she was betrothed to another, it was death to debauch her ( Deut. xxii. 23, 24 ); but the law here mentioned respects her as single. But, if the father refused her to him, he was to give satisfaction in money for the injury and disgrace he had done her.

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
אִם־	'im-	if	H518 →
מָאֵ֧ן	ma.'En	absolutely <refuse>	H3985 →
יְמָאֵ֛ן	ye.ma.'En	he will refuse	H3985 →
אָבִ֖יהָ	'a.Vi.ha	father her	H1 →
לְתִתָּ֣הּ	le.ti.Tah	to give her	H5414 →
ל֑וֹ	lo	to <the> him
כֶּ֣סֶף	Ke.sef	silver	H3701 →
יִשְׁקֹ֔ל	yish.Kol	he will weigh out	H8254 →
כְּמֹ֖הַר	ke.Mo.har	according to [the] bride-price of	H4119 →
הַבְּתוּלֹֽת׃ ס	ha.be.tu.Lot	<the> virgins	H1330 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

H3985maenabsolutely <refuse>41×

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Genesis 34:12
Demand a high dowry and an expensive gift, and I will give you whatever you ask. Only give me the girl as my wife!”
leads to
- Exodus 22:16–17
  If a man seduces a virgin who is not pledged in marriage and sleeps with her, he must pay the full dowry for her to be his wife.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Deuteronomy 22:29
then the man who lay with her must pay the young woman’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she must become his wife because he has violated her. He must not divorce her as…
leads to
- Deuteronomy 22:19
  They are also to fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the young woman’s father, because this man has given a virgin of Israel a bad name. And she shall…
- Deuteronomy 22:24
  you must take both of them out to the gate of that city and stone them to death—the young woman because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he…
Through
1 Samuel 18:25
Saul replied, “Say to David, ‘The king desires no other dowry but a hundred Philistine foreskins as revenge on his enemies.’” But Saul intended to cause David’s death at the hands of the Philistines.
leads to
- 1 Samuel 14:24
  Now the men of Israel were in distress that day, for Saul had placed the troops under an oath, saying, “Cursed is the man who eats any food before evening, before I have taken…
- Genesis 34:12
  Demand a high dowry and an expensive gift, and I will give you whatever you ask. Only give me the girl as my wife!”
- 1 Samuel 18:17
  Then Saul said to David, “Here is my older daughter Merab. I will give her to you in marriage. Only be valiant for me and fight the LORD’s battles.” But Saul was thinking, “I…
Through
Genesis 23:16
Abraham agreed to Ephron’s terms and weighed out for him the price he had named in the hearing of the Hittites: four hundred shekels of silver, according to the standard of the merchants.
leads to
- Jeremiah 32:9
  So I bought the field in Anathoth from my cousin Hanamel, and I weighed out seventeen shekels of silver.
- Zechariah 11:12
  Then I told them, “If it seems right to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep them.” So they weighed out my wages, thirty pieces of silver.