¹² Make the price for the bride^(A) and the gift I am to bring as great as you like, and I’ll pay whatever you ask me. Only give me the young woman as my wife.”

²⁸ If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered,^{(A) 29} he shall pay her father fifty shekels^[a] of silver. He must marry the young woman, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.