Of Intercourse with a Virgin not Betrothed. The man shall pay a bride-price (see on Deuteronomy 22:22) and marry her without power of divorce. For seduction E, Exodus 22:16 f., exacts the bride-price but the father may refuse his daughter to the man. Among the TiyâhaArabs the seducer of a woman pays the blood-price of two men; if he will marry her he must furnish the full bride-price (Musil, Ethn. Ber.210).

lay hold on her Not the same vb as in Deuteronomy 22:25, usually explained as rape, but this is not certain.

and he be found So LXX. Heb. theyis due to dittography.

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