Exodus 22:16 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁶ And if a man entice a virgin that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ If a man seduces a virgin not betrothed and lies with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to become his wife.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ And if a man entice a virgin that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ When a man seduces a young woman who isn’t engaged to be married yet and he sleeps with her, he must marry her and pay the bride-price for her.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ If a man has led astray a virgin not yet betrothed, and he has slept with her, he shall pay her dowry and have her as a wife.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ If a man seduce a virgin not yet espoused, and lie with her: he shall endow her, and have her to wife.

Exodus 22:16 Cross References

Exodus 22:15

If the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good: if it be an hired thing, it came for its hire.

Proverbs 30:19

The way of an eagle in the air; The way of a serpent upon a rock; The way of a ship in the midst of the sea; And the way of a man with a maid.

Matthew 1:18

Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.