Exodus 22:17 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁷ If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money equivalent to the dowry of virgins.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ But if her father absolutely refuses to let them marry, he must still pay the same amount as the bride-price for young women.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ If the father of the virgin is not willing to give her, he shall pay money according to manner of a dowry, which virgins are accustomed to receive.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ If the maid's father will not give her to him, he shall give money according to the dowry, which virgins are wont to receive.

Exodus 22:17 Cross References

Genesis 23:16

And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.

Genesis 30:20

And Leah said, God hath endowed me with a good dowry; now will my husband dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons: and she called his name Zebulun.

Genesis 34:12

Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to wife.

Leviticus 20:6

And the soul that turneth unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto the wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.

Deuteronomy 18:10

There shall not be found with thee any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, one that useth divination, one that practiseth augury, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer,

Deuteronomy 22:29

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.

1 Samuel 18:25

And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but an hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies. Now Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.

1 Samuel 28:3

Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. And Saul had put away those that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land.