¹⁴And seek occasions to put her away, laying to her charge a very ill name, and say: I took this woman to wife, and going in to her, I found her not a virgin:

¹⁵Her father and mother shall take her, and shall bring with them the tokens of her virginity to the ancients of the city that are in the gate:

¹⁶And the father shall say: I gave my daughter unto this man to wife: and because he hateth her,

¹⁷He layeth to her charge a very ill name, so as to say: I found not thy daughter a virgin: and behold these are the tokens of my daughter’s virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the ancients of the city:

¹⁸And the ancients of that city shall take that man, and beat him,

¹⁹Condemning him besides in a hundred sicles of silver, which he shall give to the damsel’s father, because he hath defamed by a very ill name a virgin of Israel: and he shall have her to wife, and may not put her away all the days of his life.

²⁰But if what he charged her with be true, and virginity be not found in the damsel:

²¹They shall cast her out of the doors of her father’s house, and the men of the city shall stone her to death, and she shall die: because she hath done a wicked thing in Israel, to play the whore in her father’s house: and thou shalt take away the evil out of the midst of thee.

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