1 tn Or “after the manner of” (KJV, ASV); NRSV “shall deal with her as with a daughter.”
2 tn Both with this verb “stolen” and in the next clauses with “torn in pieces,” the text uses the infinitive absolute construction with less than normal emphasis; as Gesenius says, in conditional clauses, an infinitive absolute stresses the importance of the condition on which some consequence depends (GKC 342-43 §113.o).
3 sn The point is that the man should have taken better care of the animal.