28 “If a man happens to meet a virgin girl who is not engaged and he seizes her and lies down with her and they are discovered,+29 the man who lay down with her must give the girl’s father 50 silver shekels, and she will become his wife.+ Because he humiliated her, he will not be allowed to divorce her as long as he lives." -NWT 2013 revised edition
Was just on the thread about Lot and his messed up family life and was reminded of another part of the bible that made me feel physically sick the first time i read it. And what makes it worse for me is how the wt tries to put a completely different spin on this. (luckily for me this was all on the online library so anybody can see how they twist what's been written)
"If a man seduced an unengaged virgin, he had to take her as his wife; even if the father flatly refused to give her to him, he had to pay her father the purchase price for virgins (50 shekels; $110), the usual bride-price, because her diminished value as a bride would now have to be compensated for.—Ex 22:16, 17; De 22:28, 29." - it-1 494
I'm sorry but where do they get the idea that the woman in this scenario is "seduced"? The word used is "seizes" (i've also noticed that this is one of the few bible translations that didn't use the word rape) which by definition implies force was used.
Another part reads: " Under the Mosaic Law, a man committing fornication with an unengaged girl was required to marry the girl and to pay her father the purchase price for brides (50 silver shekels; $110), and he could not divorce her all his days. Even if her father refused to give him the girl in marriage, the man had to pay the purchase price to the father. ( Ex 22:16, 17; De 22:28, 29 ) " -it-1 863
Then we get to the part about the "bride-price". Because everyone knows that you can't fall in love and marry the woman of your dreams for less than 50 shekels. So much for the sanctity of marriage.