General references
the Holy Bible

--Exodus--

And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do. (21:7)

If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her. (21:8)

And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters. (21:9)

If he take him another [wife]; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish. (21:10)

And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money. (21:11)

--Leviticus--

And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that [is] a bondmaid, betrothed to an husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; she shall be scourged; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free. (19:20)

And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the Lord, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, [even] a ram for a trespass offering. (19:21)

And the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering before the Lord for his sin which he hath done: and the sin which he hath done shall be forgiven him. (19:22)

--Deuteronomy--

When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the Lord thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive, (21:10)

And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife; (21:11)

Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails; (21:12)

And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife. (21:13)

And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money, thou shalt not make merchandise of her, because thou hast humbled her. (21:14)

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