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Deuteronomy 22:15–21

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15then the father and mother of the young woman shall take and bring out the evidence of the young woman’s virginity to the elders of the city at the gate. 16And the young woman’s father shall say to the elders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man as wife, and he detests her. 17Now he has charged her with shameful conduct, saying, “I found your daughter was not a virgin,” and yet these are the evidences of my daughter’s virginity.’ And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city. 18Then the elders of that city shall take that man and punish him; 19and they shall fine him one hundred shekels of silver and give them to the father of the young woman, because he has brought a bad name on a virgin of Israel. And she shall be his wife; he cannot divorce her all his days.

20“But if the thing is true, and evidences of virginity are not found for the young woman, 21then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with jstones, because she has kdone a disgraceful thing in Israel, to play the harlot in her father’s house. lSo you shall 4put away the evil from among you.

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Footnotes

  1. 4purge the evil person

Cross references

  1. jDeut. 21:21
  2. kGen. 34:7; Judg. 20:5–10; 2 Sam. 13:12, 13
  3. lDeut. 13:5