28 " If a man finds a girl who is a virgin , who is not engaged , and seizes her and lies with her and they are discovered , 29 then the man who lay with her shall give to the girl's father fifty shekels of silver , and she shall become his wife because e he has violated her; he cannot e divorce her all his days .
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Deuteronomy 22:28-29
Commentary on Deuteronomy 22:13-30
(Read Deuteronomy 22:13-30)
These and the like regulations might be needful then, and yet it is not necessary that we should curiously examine respecting them. The laws relate to the seventh commandment, laying a restraint upon fleshly lusts which war against the soul.