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Deuteronomy 22:16-23 English Revised Version (ERV)

16. and the damsel's father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her;

17. and, lo, he hath laid shameful things to her charge, saying, I found not in thy daughter the tokens of virginity; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the garment before the elders of the city.

18. And the elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him;

19. and they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.

20. But if this thing be true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the damsel:

21. then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the harlot in her father's house: so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee.

22. If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away the evil from Israel.

23. If there be a damsel that is a virgin betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;

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