¹³If a man marries a girl and has sexual relations with her but then decides he does not like her, ¹⁴he might talk badly about her and give her a bad name. He might say, “I married this woman, but when I had sexual relations with her, I did not find that she was a virgin.” ¹⁵Then the girl’s parents must bring proof that she was a virgin to the elders at the city gate. ¹⁶The girl’s father will say to the elders, “I gave my daughter to this man to be his wife, but now he does not want her. ¹⁷This man has told lies about my daughter. He has said, ‘I did not find your daughter to be a virgin,’ but here is the proof that my daughter was a virgin.” Then her parents are to show the sheet to the elders of the city, ¹⁸and the elders must take the man and punish him. ¹⁹They must make him pay about two and one-half pounds of silver to the girl’s father, because the man has given an Israelite virgin a bad name. The girl will continue to be the man’s wife, and he may not divorce her as long as he lives.

²⁰But if the things the husband said about his wife are true, and there is no proof that she was a virgin, ²¹the girl must be brought to the door of her father’s house. Then the men of the town must put her to death by throwing stones at her. She has done a disgraceful thing in Israel by having sexual relations before she was married. You must get rid of the evil among you.

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