Deuteronomy 22:13-21
Laws on Morality
13 a“If any man takes a wife and goes in to her and then ▼▼ Lit hates her
turns against her, 14and charges her with shameful deeds and ▼▼ Lit causes an evil name to go out against her
publicly defames her, and says, ‘I took this woman, but when I came near her, I did not find her a virgin,’ 15then the girl’s father and her mother shall take and bring out the evidence of the girl’s virginity to the elders of the city at the gate. 16“The girl’s father shall say to the elders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man for a wife, but he ▼▼ Lit hated her
turned against her; 17and behold, he has charged her with shameful deeds, saying, “I did not find your daughter a virgin.” But ▼▼ Lit these are
this is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity.’ And they shall spread the garment before the elders of the city. 18“So fthe elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him, 19and they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give it to the girl’s father, because he ▼▼ Lit caused an evil name to go out against a virgin
publicly defamed a virgin of Israel. And she shall remain his wife; he cannot ▼▼ Lit send her away
divorce her all his days. 20“But if this ▼▼ Lit matter
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jcharge is true, that the girl was not found a virgin, 21then they shall bring out the girl to the doorway of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her ▼▼ Lit with stones so that she dies
to death because she has lcommitted an act of folly in Israel by playing the harlot in her father’s house; thus myou shall purge the evil from among you.
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