Deuteronomy 22:29 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Bible Comments

Fifty shekels — Besides the dowry, as Philo, the learned Jew notes, which is here omitted, because that was customary, it being sufficient here to mention what was peculiar to this case. His wife — If her father consented to it.

Deuteronomy 22:29

29 Then 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.