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28 “If a man finds a girl who is a virgin, who is not engaged, and seizes her and is intimate with her and they are discovered, 29 then the man who was intimate with her shall give fifty shekels of silver to the girl’s father, and she shall become his wife because he has violated her; he can [a]never divorce her.

30 [b]A man shall not take his father’s [former] wife, so that he will not [c]expose his father’s wife.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 22:29 Lit all his days.
  2. Deuteronomy 22:30 In Hebrew this is 23:1, changing the versification throughout the following chapter.
  3. Deuteronomy 22:30 Lit uncover his father’s skirt.

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