Deuteronomy 22:28–29.— SEDUCTION.

See Exodus 22:16-17. The sin of seduction before marriage is punished by a hea…

Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's
father fifty shekels of silver…

These and similar regulations might have been necessary then, and yet it is not necessary that we scrupulously examine them. The laws relate to the…