“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;”
Deuteronomy 22:28 (KJV) |
Deuteronomy 22:28
From Deuteronomy 22, in the Book of Deuteronomy (Old Testament).
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But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so is this matter:
For he found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her.
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;
Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.
A man shall not take his father’s wife, nor discover his father’s skirt.