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Deuter­­onomy 22:11-19 Modern English Version (MEV)

11. You must not wear clothing made of a material of wool and linen together.

12. You must make tassels on the four quarters of your clothing with which you cover yourself.

13. If any man takes a wife and has sexual relations with her and then rejects her,

14. and accuses her of impropriety and publicly defames her, saying, “I married this woman, but when I had sexual relations with her, I found her not to be a virgin,”

15. then the father and mother of the girl must produce evidence of the girl’s virginity to the elders of the city at the gate.

16. The girl’s father must say to the elders, “I gave my daughter to this man to wife, and he has rejected her.

17. What is more, he has accused her of impropriety, saying, ‘I did not find your daughter to be a virgin.’ However, this is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity.” And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.

18. The elders of that city must take that man and punish him,

19. and they must fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the father of the girl, because he has publicly humiliated a virgin of Israel. Then she is to remain his wife. He may not divorce her all his days.

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