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Exodus 22:16-17

EXODUS—NOTE ON Exodus 22:16 Although seduces probably implies mutual consent, the man must provide for the woman he has seduced, both by marrying her (unless the father utterly refuses) and by paying the bride-price (see Deuteronomy 22:28), even if the father forbids the marriage. Since the bride-price was equivalent to several years’ wages, this amounts to a huge fine for premarital intercourse.

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See also Exodus 22:16-17 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Exodus 22:16. _IF A MAN ENTICE A MAID_] This was an exceedingly wise and humane law, and must have operated powerfully against seduction and fornication; because the person who might feel incli...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    See the marginal references....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 22 FURTHER JUDGMENTS _ 1. Concerning theft (Exodus 22:1)_ 2. Concerning neglect in case of fire (Exodus 22:6) 3. Concerning dishonesty (Exodus 22:7) 4. Concerning immoralities and forbidde...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    EXODUS 22:7 E. BREACH OF TRUST. A man going on a journey would make his neighbour his banker. If the money or valuables were stolen, the thief, if found, was to pay double (Exodus 22:7); otherwise the...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _a_ MARRIAGE-PRICE] Heb. _môhar_, Arab, _mahr_; i.e. not a -dowry," but the price paid for the wife to her parents or family, according to ancient Hebrew custom (cf. Genesis 34:12; 1 Samuel 18:25). Th...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Exodus 20:22 to Exodus 23:33 _The Book of the Covenant_ The -Book of the Covenant" (see Exodus 24:7 in explanation of the name) is the oldest piece of Hebrew legislation that we possess. The laws co...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Compensation for the seduction of an unbetrothed maiden The unmarried and unbetrothed daughter counts as part of her father's property; by the loss of her virginity her value is diminished; her father...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 22 If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. (2) If the thief be found breaking in,...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND IF A MAN ENTICE A MAID THAT IS NOT BETROTHED, AND LIE WITH HER, HE SHALL SURELY ENDOW HER TO BE HIS WIFE._ And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed. The insertion of this case in a serie...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT (CONTINUED) 1. Four sheep] The larger compensation required in the case of the ox is probably due to the fact that it is an animal used for labour, and of proportionately hig...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    EXODUS: *ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION GOD’S INSTRUCTIONS TO MOSES EXODUS CHAPTER S 19 TO 40 _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 22 LAWS ABOUT PROPERTY – VERSES 1-15 V1 The *LORD continued to spe...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    MISCELLANEOUS LAWS. (16-31) The remainder of the chapter contains laws which it is impossible to bring under any general head or heads, and which can, therefore, only be regarded as miscellaneous. Mo...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    IF A MAN ENTICE A MAID. — The seduction of a maiden is regarded more seriously in primitive than in more advanced communities. The father looked to receive a handsome sum (ἕδνα) from the man to whom h...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Exodus 22:15]_ וְ כִֽי ־יְפַתֶּ֣ה אִ֗ישׁ בְּתוּלָ֛ה...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XXII. _ THE LESSER LAW (continued)._ PART IV. Exodus 22:16 - Exodus 23:19. The Fourth section of this law within the law consists of enactments, curiously disconnected, many of them without...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The laws of property follow. The section really begins with verse Exo 21:33 of the previous chapter. These laws also began by laying emphasis on the guilt of carelessness. The truth emphasized is that...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Deuteronomy 22:25....

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    "In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai." Up to this point all the dealings of God have been the...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Hence, also, it is manifest that, although God remits the judicial penalty, fornication is displeasing to Him. As to the spiritual judgment of the conscience, there were expiations to propitiate Him;...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 19 THROUGH 23. But having thus terminated the course of grace, the scene changes entirely. They do not keep the feast on the mountain, whither God, as He had...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND IF A MAN ENTICE A MAID, THAT IS NOT BETROTHED,.... For one might be betrothed according to the custom of those times, and not be married, or the nuptials consummated, and so be yet a maid or virgi...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife. Ver. 16. _Entice a maid._] Heb., persuade with her by fair words, which make fools fain....

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Of theft. 5 Of dammage. 7 Of trespasses. 14.Of borrowing. 16 Of fornication. 18 Of witchcraft. 19 Of bestialitie. 20 Of idolatrie. 21 Of strangers, widowes, and fatherlesse. 25 Of vsurie. 2...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    REGARDING VARIOUS SOCIAL RELATIONS...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, thus seducing her and robbing her of her honor and virginity, HE SHALL SURELY ENDOW HER TO BE HIS WIFE. The crime could be expiated...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    C. FIRST FORM OF THE LAW OF THE POLITICAL COMMONWEALTH Exodus 21:1 to Exodus 23:33 _a. Right of Personal Freedom (according to Bertheau, ten in number)_ 1Now these _are_ the judgments [ordinances] w...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    LAWS AS REGARDS PROPERTY (vs.1-15) While one rightly was control over his own property, yet he is also responsible as to how he uses it. If one were to dig a pit, even on his own property, and leave...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    IF A MAN ENTICE A MAID, by persuasions, promise of marriage, allurements, or rewards. But if she were betrothed, it was punished with death, DEUTERONOMY 22:23,24....

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    The study of this section of our book is eminently calculated to impress the heart with a sense d God's unsearchable wisdom and infinite goodness. It enables one to form some idea of the character of...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Exodus 22:16 man H376 entices H6601 (H8762) virgin H1330 betrothed H781 (H8795) lies H7901 (H8804) shall...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    TWO FURTHER COMMANDMENTS (EXODUS 22:14). Both these verses begin with ‘and if', differentiating them from the previous section. They deal with borrowing and enticement and stand on their own. BORROW...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    EXPANSION OF THE TEN WORDS OF THE COVENANT (EXODUS 20:22 TO EXODUS 23:33). In this section, which is composed of elements put together mainly in chiastic form (see later), Yahweh expands on the Ten W...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Judgments on rights of property; crimes against humanity. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: Man's attitude to his fellow man will be based on his attitude to God and His law. KEY WORD:...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Exodus 22:2. _Breaking up,_ by forcible entrance into a house, _there shall no blood be shed for him,_ though he be killed by another in his own defence. In that case the thief might be presumed to ha...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _If a man entice a maid._ LESSONS 1. Providence may suffer men through strength of lust to entice and defile virgins. 2. Such enticing and polluting is grievous sin against God and man abhorred of...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CONCERNING BORROWING.—_Exodus 22:14_ This is an extension of the preceding principles. Borrowing might be for the purpose of—1, obligation; or 2, trade. I. If that which was borrowed received hurt i...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION MISCELLANEOUS LAWS (Exodus 22:16-2) EXODUS 22:16, EXODUS 22:17 _Laws against seduction_. It has been

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION II. LAWS CONNECTED WITH RIGHTS OF PROPERTY (verses 33-36). From the consideration of injuries to the person, the legislator proceeds to treat of injuries to property, and, as he has been sp...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    If a man shall steal an ox, and kill it, [The rustlers] and sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, four sheep for a sheep (Exodus 22:1). You see in those days they were interested in taking ca...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    a man entice Genesis 34:2 Deuteronomy 22:28 Deuteronomy 22:29...

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