Deuteronomy 22:13–21

Statutes About Sexual Immorality

¹³“^aIf any man takes a wife and goes in to her and then ¹turns against her,

¹⁴and charges her with shameful deeds and brings forth against her a bad name 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“Then the girl’s father shall say to the elders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man as a wife, but he ¹turned against her;

¹⁷and behold, he has charged her with shameful deeds, saying, “I did not find your daughter a virgin.” But ¹this is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity.’ And they shall spread the garment before the elders of the city.

¹⁸“So ^athe elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him,

¹⁹and they shall fine him ¹one hundred shekels of silver and give it to the girl’s father because he brought forth a bad name against a virgin of Israel. And she shall be his wife; he cannot ²divorce her all his days.

²⁰“But if this ^1acharge 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, and she will die because she has ^acommitted a disgraceful act in Israel by playing the harlot in her father’s house; thus ^byou shall purge the evil from among you.