¹² Demand of me a high compensation^[a] and gift; I’ll give you whatever you ask me. Only 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 is to give the young woman’s father fifty silver shekels, and she will become his wife because he violated her.^(A) He cannot divorce her as long as he lives.