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Deuteronomy 22:28

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If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;

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  1. Deuteronomy 22:26

    But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so is this matter:

  2. Deuteronomy 22:27

    For he found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her.

  3. Deuteronomy 22:29

    Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.

  4. Deuteronomy 22:30

    A man shall not take his father’s wife, nor discover his father’s skirt.

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