E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Exodus 22:17
dowry = 50 shekels. Deuteronomy 22:29 . See App-51 . read more
Exodus 22:17 Niv
E.W. Bullinger
James Burton Coffman
Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Exodus 22:16-17
"And if a man entice a virgin that is not betrothed, and he lie with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife. If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins."The Hebrew language has two words for virgin, "[~`almah], an espoused virgin, and [~bªthuwlah], a virgin who is not espoused."[9]; Isaiah 7:14 prophesied that, "A virgin ([~`almah]) shall conceive and bear a son, and will call his name Immanuel. By the choice of that... read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Exodus 22:16-17
Next we have a case of seduction. Here the girl is viewed as the property of her father. If a young couple had premarital sex, the young man had to marry the young woman and give his father-in-law the customary payment (i.e., a dowry) to do so. The girl’s father could refuse this offer, however, in which case the boy would not get the girl but would still have to pay the dowry. This law pertained to situations in which seduction (persuasion), not rape, had resulted in intercourse. Other Torah... read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Exodus 22:16-31
Crimes against society 22:16-31 read more
John Dummelow
John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 22:1-31
The Book of the Covenant (continued)1. Four sheep] The larger compensation required in the case of the ox is probably due to the fact that it is an animal used for labour, and of proportionately higher value, therefore, than a sheep: cp. 2 Samuel 12:6. 2. Breaking up] RV ’breaking in.’ 3. If the sun be risen upon him] i.e. if the housebreaking be committed in daylight. The nocturnal burglar is more dangerous and cannot be so easily detected. In a case of daylight robbery it is less necessary to... read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Exodus 22:16-31
MISCELLANEOUS LAWS.(16-31) The remainder of the chapter contains laws which it is impossible to bring under any general head or heads, and which can, therefore, only be regarded as miscellaneous. Moses may have recorded them in the order in which they were delivered to him; or have committed them to writing as they afterwards occurred to his memory. read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Exodus 22:17
(17) He shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.—It is not stated what the amount was to be in this case; but probably it was more than in the other. read more
William Nicoll
Expositor's Bible Commentary - Exodus 22:1-31
6THE LESSER LAW.Exodus 20:18 - Exodus 23:33.With the close of the Decalogue and its universal obligations, we approach a brief code of laws, purely Hebrew, but of the deepest moral interest, confessed by hostile criticism to bear every mark of a remote antiquity, and distinctly severed from what precedes and follows by a marked difference in the circumstances.This is evidently the book of the Covenant to which the nation gave its formal assent (Exodus 24:7), and is therefore the germ and the... read more
William Nicoll
Expositor's Bible Commentary - Exodus 22:16-31
CHAPTER XXII.THE LESSER LAW (continued).PART IV.Exodus 22:16 - Exodus 23:19.The Fourth section of this law within the law consists of enactments, curiously disconnected, many of them without a penalty, varying greatly in importance, but all of a moral nature, and connected with the well-being of the state. It is hard to conceive how the systematic revision of which we hear so much could have left them in the condition in which they stand.It is enacted that a seducer must marry the woman he has... read more
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Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Exodus 22:1-17
Laws about repayment (22:1-17)A convicted thief had to return stolen goods and pay a fine in the form of an additional compensation to the owner. The more serious the crime, the heavier the fine. If the thief could not make the payment, he himself became the payment by becoming the slave of the one whose goods he had stolen. It was not lawful to kill a thief caught in the act, unless at night, when self-defence could make such action excusable. Normally the thief was to be captured and brought... read more