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Exodus 22:15–16
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Exodus 22:15
15But if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good: if it be an hired thing, it came for his hire.
15 But if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good: If it bee an hired thing, it came for his hire.
Exodus 22:16
16¶ And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.
16¶ And *if a man entice a maide that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.
- Deut. 22.28.
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DEFINED WORDS
Exodus 22:15
However; introducing a contrast with what precedes.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat, Bible Words Glossary (1893) · KJV usage
The person who rightfully possesses or holds title to what is named.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage
To form, produce, cause, or carry out what the verse states.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat, Bible Words Glossary (1893) · KJV usage
That which is right, beneficial, pleasing, useful, or morally upright.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage
Employed, engaged, or obtained for an agreed payment or reward.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Payment or reward for service; also to engage a person or obtain temporary use for agreed payment.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
DEFINED WORDS
Exodus 22:16
A human being; an adult male; a person, husband, servant, or representative, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To attract, allure, or draw by exciting desire or hope, especially toward wrongdoing.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A young unmarried woman; a female servant or attendant.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage
Promised or pledged in marriage.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604
To recline, rest, remain, or be situated; also, to speak falsely or a falsehood.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage
Certainly, truly, firmly, or without doubt.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To furnish, bestow upon, or give a gift, quality, or provision.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage
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From verse 15
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Open the full verse study10For before these days there was no hire for man, nor any hire for beast; neither was there any peace to him that went out or came in because of the affliction: for I set all men every one against his neighbour.
From verse 16
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Open the full verse study28¶ 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;
29Then 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.
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Open the full verse study2And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.
3And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damsel.
4And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife.
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