¹² Demand of me a high compensation^[a] and gift; I’ll give you whatever you ask me. Just give the girl to be my wife!”

²⁸ If a man encounters a young woman, a virgin who is not engaged, takes hold of her and rapes her, and they are discovered, ²⁹ the man who raped her must give the young woman’s father 50 silver shekels, and she must become his wife because he violated her.^(A) He cannot divorce her as long as he lives.