Footnote

b Under the Mosaic Law, God required a man who had seduced a virgin to marry her. (Exodus 22:16, 17; Deuteronomy 22:28, 29) But that law served the needs of God’s people under the circumstances of that day and age. And even then, marriage was not automatic, as the father could forbid it.​—See our companion journal The Watchtower, November 15, 1989, “Questions From Readers.”