Éxodo 22:17

17 Aun si el padre se niega a que él se case con ella, el hombre tendrá que pagar una cantidad igual al precio que se acostumbra pagar por una virgen.

Éxodo 22:17 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 22:17

If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him
For wife, either because of his character, family, or circumstances; or, however, being disagreeable to him on one account or another, and therefore will by no means agree to marry his daughter to him, and not only give him an absolute denial, but resolutely persist in it: the Targum of Jonathan has it,

``if it seems not good to him;''

if he do not like nor choose to marry her; and some add also, if she herself do not approve of marrying him:

he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins;
as virgins on marriage have usually given them, according to their rank and dignity: here is no sum fixed, but the Targum of Jonathan is,

``he shall be mulcted in fifty shekels of silver,''

which is taken from ( Deuteronomy 22:29 ) though that seems to be not altogether a like case with this; for though it respects a virgin not betrothed, as here, yet one that has been forced, and therefore the man was obliged to marry her, and never put her away; and the mulct or fine was to be paid to the damsel's father and not to her: the Septuagint version here says, it was to be paid to the father.

Éxodo 22:17 In-Context

15 pero si el dueño estaba presente, no se exigirá ninguna compensación. Si el animal fue alquilado, tampoco se exigirá ninguna compensación, porque los posibles daños están incluidos en el alquiler.

16 Responsabilidad social
»Si un hombre seduce a una mujer virgen que no está comprometida y tiene sexo con ella, tendrá que pagar a la familia de la mujer la cantidad acostumbrada por una virgen y casarse con ella.

17 Aun si el padre se niega a que él se case con ella, el hombre tendrá que pagar una cantidad igual al precio que se acostumbra pagar por una virgen.

18 »No dejes con vida a las hechiceras.

19 »Cualquiera que tenga relaciones sexuales con un animal será ejecutado.