Deuteronomy 22:29
Good News Translation
He is to pay her father the bride price of fifty pieces of silver, and she is to become his wife, because he forced her to have intercourse with him. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.

New Revised Standard Version
the man who lay with her shall give fifty shekels of silver to the young woman’s father, and she shall become his wife. Because he violated her he shall not be permitted to divorce her as long as he lives.

Contemporary English Version
they will be forced to get married. He must give her father 50 pieces of silver as a bride-price and can never divorce her.

New American Bible
the man who lay with her shall give the young woman’s father fifty silver shekels and she will be his wife, because he has violated her. He may not divorce her as long as he lives.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that lay with her shall give to the father of the maid fifty sicles of silver, and shall have her to wife, because he hath humbled her: he may not put her away all the days of his life.

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He that lay with her shall give to the father of the maid fifty sicles of silver, and shall have her to wife, because he hath humbled her: he may not put her away all the days of his life.

because he hath humbled

Deuteronomy 22:19,24 Condemning him besides in a hundred sicles of silver, which he shall give to the damsel's father, because he hath defamed by a very ill name a virgin of Israel: and he shall have her to wife, and may not put her away all the days of his life. . . .

Deuteronomy 21:14 But if afterwards she please thee not, thou shalt let her go free, but thou mayst not sell her for money nor oppress her by might because thou hast humbled her.

Context
Marriage Violations
28If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, who is not espoused, and taking her, lie with her, and the matter come to judgment: 29He that lay with her shall give to the father of the maid fifty sicles of silver, and shall have her to wife, because he hath humbled her: he may not put her away all the days of his life.30No man shall take his father's wife, nor remove his covering.…
Cross References
Exodus 22:16
If a man seduce a virgin not yet espoused, and lie with her: he shall endow her, and have her to wife.

Deuteronomy 22:28
If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, who is not espoused, and taking her, lie with her, and the matter come to judgment:

Deuteronomy 22:30
No man shall take his father's wife, nor remove his covering.

Deuteronomy 22:28
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