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Deuteronomy 22:14–17
14 and ⌊he accuses her falsely⌋,v and ⌊he defames her⌋,w and he says ‘This woman I took and I lay with her and ⌊I discovered that she was not a virgin⌋,’x 15 then in defense the father of the young woman shall take, along with her mother, and together they must bring out the evidence of the virginity of the young woman to display it to the elders of the city ⌊at the city gate⌋.y 16 And then the father of the young woman shall say to the elders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man as wife, but he now ⌊dislikes⌋z her, 17 and now look ⌊he has accused her falsely⌋,a saying, “I did not find ⌊your daughter a virgin⌋,”b but here is evidence of the virginity of my daughter’; and they shall spread the cloth out ⌊before⌋c the elders of the city.
| v | Literally “he puts to her deeds of words” |
| w | Literally “he brings forth against her a bad name” |
| x | Literally “I found not with her virginity” |
| y | Literally “toward the city gate” |
| z | Literally “hates” |
| a | Literally “he put deeds of words” |
| b | Literally “to your daughter virginity” |
| c | Literally “to the face of” |
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