If her father refuse] For the children should not marry without the consent of parents. according to the dowrie of virgins] That is, according to her dowrie as a virgine, whom he hath desiled; to wit, according to her state, and condition: that is, more to the daughter of a rich man, then of a poore. There seemes to be one set rate for all sorts, Deuteronomy 22:29. But the case is not alike; for that in Deut. is when the maid was forced, or lustfully abused, without intimation of marriage, to induce unto the act: and then the father was for his part of the wrong in the abuse of his daughter, to have of the offender fiftie shekels of silver, and he was to have her for his wife; and he might not put her away all the dayes of his life. But in this case (in Exod.) it is otherwise: for if her father refused to give her in marriage, he that abused her, was to pay so much, as might serve to marry her to another of a sutable condition: and if he were not able to make good that proportion, he was to be sold as in case of theft, vers. 3. of this Chap.