Exodus 22:17
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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.

utterly

Deuteronomy 7:3,4 Neither shalt thou make marriages with them. Thou shalt not give thy daughter to his son, nor take his daughter for thy son: . . .

pay.

Genesis 23:16 And when Abraham had heard this, he weighed out the money that Ephron had asked, in the hearing of the children of Heth, four hundred sicles of silver, of common current money.

dowry of virgins

Genesis 34:12 Raise the dowry, and ask gifts, and I will gladly give what you shall demand: only give me this damsel to wife.

Deuteronomy 22:29 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.

1 Samuel 18:25 And Saul said: Speak thus to David: The king desireth not any dowry, but only a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies. Now Saul thought to deliver David into the hands of the Philistines.

Context
Laws of Social Responsibility
16If a man seduce a virgin not yet espoused, and lie with her: he shall endow her, and have her to wife. 17If the maid's father will not give her to him, he shall give money according to the dowry, which virgins are wont to receive.18Wizards thou shalt not suffer to live.…
Cross References
Genesis 30:20
And said: God hath endowed me with a good dowry; this turn also my husband will be with me, because I have borne him six sons: and therefore she called his name Zabulon.

Genesis 34:12
Raise the dowry, and ask gifts, and I will gladly give what you shall demand: only give me this damsel to wife.

1 Samuel 18:25
And Saul said: Speak thus to David: The king desireth not any dowry, but only a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies. Now Saul thought to deliver David into the hands of the Philistines.

Lexicon
If
אִם־ (’im-)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not

her father
אָבִ֖יהָ (’ā·ḇî·hā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1: Father

absolutely refuses
מָאֵ֧ן (mā·’ên)
Verb - Piel - Infinitive absolute
Strong's Hebrew 3985: To refuse

to give her
לְתִתָּ֣הּ (lə·ṯit·tāh)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5414: To give, put, set

to him,
ל֑וֹ (lōw)
Preposition | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew

he still must pay
יִשְׁקֹ֔ל (yiš·qōl)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8254: To suspend, poise

an amount comparable
כֶּ֣סֶף (ke·sep̄)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3701: Silver, money

to the bridal price
כְּמֹ֖הַר (kə·mō·har)
Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 4119: Purchase price (of a wife)

of a virgin.
הַבְּתוּלֹֽת׃ (hab·bə·ṯū·lōṯ)
Article | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1330: A virgin, sometimes, a bride


Additional Translations
If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, the man still must pay an amount comparable to the bridal price of a virgin.If her father utterly refuse to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

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

And if her father positively refuse, and will not consent to give her to him for a wife, he shall pay compensation to her father according to the amount of the dowry of virgins.

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

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

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

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

if her father utterly refuse to give her to him, money he doth weigh out according to the dowry of virgins.
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