SEV Biblia, Chapter 22:16
Y dirá el padre de la moza a los ancianos: Yo di mi hija a este hombre por mujer, y él la aborrece;
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 16. And the damsel’s father shall say unto the elders , etc.] Not her mother; hence we learn, says Jarchi, that a woman has not power (or is not allowed) to speak before men; that is, in public (see 1 Corinthians 14:34) and it was most proper for a father to appear in court for her, and defend her; and if she had no parents living then, those that brought her up, her guardians, that had the education of her, and placing her out in marriage, were to undertake her cause; or, as Josephus says, those that were next akin to her; or, as, Aben Ezra, one appointed by the court: I gave my daughter unto this man to wife ; and, by the Jewish canons f369 , a man might give his daughter in marriage, but a woman might not: and he hateth her ; has taken a dislike to her, and wants to be rid of her, and therefore has brought this infamous action against her.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 13-30 - These and the like regulations might be needful then, and yet it is no necessary that we should curiously examine respecting them. The law relate to the seventh commandment, laying a restraint upon fleshl lusts which war against the soul __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ואמר 559 אבי 1 הנער 5291 אל 413 הזקנים 2205 את 853 בתי 1323 נתתי 5414 לאישׁ 376 הזה 2088 לאשׁה 802 וישׂנאה׃ 8130
