1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| 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. Exodus 22:16. | Life. A law nearly similar occurs, Exodus 22:16, (Haydock) only there Moses speaks of seduction. (Menochius) --- If the father or the woman refused their consent to the marriage, the person had only to pay 50 sicles; which the woman received, if her father was not alive. But if they consented, the person who had been condemned by the judge, was bound to marry the woman, how deformed soever. (Selden, Uxor. 1:16.) (Calmet) |