Focused Passage

Deuteronomy 22:28-29

Covenant Order: Neighbor, Creation, and Sexual Holiness

The chapter moves from concrete acts of community care for neighbor and creature (vv. 1–8), through laws protecting created distinctions in the natural order (vv. 9–12), into a sustained legislation of sexual holiness, marital fidelity, and covenant purity (vv. 13–30), grounding neighbor-love and sexual ethics together in the covenant order Israel bears before God.

Berean Standard Bible, Public Domain - Translation notes - Reference sources

28 If a man encounters a virgin who is not pledged in marriage, and he seizes her and lies with her, and they are discovered,

29 then the man who lay with her must pay the young woman’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she must become his wife because he has violated her. He must not divorce her as long as he lives.

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References and Original Words

Verse 28

Cross-references

Exodus 22:16 Classic cross-references

Original words

If כִּֽי־ H3588 Conjunction a man אִ֗ישׁ H376 Noun - masculine singular encounters יִמְצָ֣א H4672 Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular vvv נַעַר H5291 Noun - feminine singular a virgin בְתוּלָה֙ H1330 Noun - feminine singular who אֲשֶׁ֣ר H834 Pronoun - relative is not לֹא־ H3808 Adverb - Negative particle pledged in marriage אֹרָ֔שָׂה H781 Verb - Pual - Perfect - third person feminine singular and he seizes her וּתְפָשָׂ֖הּ H8610 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular | third person feminine singular and lies וְשָׁכַ֣ב H7901 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular with her עִמָּ֑הּ H5973 Preposition | third person feminine singular and they are discovered וְנִמְצָֽאוּ׃ H4672 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural

Verse 29

Cross-references

Deuteronomy 22:19 Classic cross-references Deuteronomy 21:14 Classic cross-references Deuteronomy 22:24 Classic cross-references Deuteronomy 24:1 Classic cross-references Exodus 22:17 Classic cross-references

Original words

then the man הָאִ֨ישׁ H376 Article | Noun - masculine singular who lay הַשֹּׁכֵ֥ב H7901 Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular with her עִמָּ֛הּ H5973 Preposition | third person feminine singular must pay וְ֠נָתַן H5414 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular the young woman’s הַנַּעַר H5291 Article | Noun - feminine singular father לַאֲבִ֥י H1 Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct fifty [shekels] חֲמִשִּׁ֣ים H2572 Number - common plural of silver כָּ֑סֶף H3701 Noun - masculine singular and וְלֽוֹ־ Conjunctive waw | Preposition | third person masculine singular she must become תִהְיֶ֣ה H1961 Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular his wife לְאִשָּׁ֗ה H802 Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular because תַּ֚חַת H8478 Preposition - אֲשֶׁ֣ר H834 Pronoun - relative he has violated her עִנָּ֔הּ H6031 Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person masculine singular | third person feminine singular He must not לֹא־ H3808 Adverb - Negative particle . . . יוּכַ֥ל H3201 Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular divorce her שַׁלְּחָ֖ה H7971 Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct | third person feminine singular as כָּל־ H3605 Noun - masculine singular construct long as he lives יָמָֽיו׃ס H3117 Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular

BSB notes

50 shekels is approximately 1.26 pounds or 569.8 grams of silver.

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