¹³“If a man marries a woman, has sexual relations with her, and comes to hate her, ¹⁴and accuses her of shameful conduct, and gives her a bad name, saying, ‘I married this woman and was intimate with her, but I didn’t find any evidence of her virginity,’ ¹⁵the young woman’s father and mother will take the evidence of her virginity and bring it to the city elders at the city gate.^d ¹⁶The young woman’s father will say to the elders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man as a wife, but he hates her. ¹⁷He has accused her of shameful conduct, saying, “I didn’t find any evidence of your daughter’s virginity,” but here is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity.’ They will spread out the cloth before the city elders. ¹⁸Then the elders of that city will take the man and punish him.^e ¹⁹They will also fine him a hundred silver shekels and give them to the young woman’s father, because that man gave an Israelite virgin a bad name. She will remain his wife; he cannot divorce her as long as he lives. ²⁰But if this accusation is true and no evidence of the young woman’s virginity is found, ²¹they will bring the woman to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city will stone her to death. For she has committed an outrage in Israel by being promiscuous while living in her father’s house. You must purge the evil from you.

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d Dt 17:8; 21:19; 25:7
e Dt 25:1–3