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The woman was very beautiful, a virgin; no man had ever slept with her. She went down to the spring, filled her jar and came up again.
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Social Responsibility
“If a man seduces a virgin who is not pledged to be married and sleeps with her, he must pay the bride-price, and she shall be his wife.
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If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, he must still pay the bride-price for virgins.
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“‘The woman he marries must be a virgin.
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He must not marry a widow, a divorced woman, or a woman defiled by prostitution, but only a virgin from his own people,
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and slanders her and gives her a bad name, saying, “I married this woman, but when I approached her, I did not find proof of her virginity,”
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then the young woman’s father and mother shall bring to the town elders at the gate proof that she was a virgin.
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Now he has slandered her and said, ‘I did not find your daughter to be a virgin.’ But here is the proof of my daughter’s virginity.” Then her parents shall display the cloth before the elders of the town,
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They shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the young woman’s father, because this man has given an Israelite virgin a bad name. She shall continue to be his wife; he must not divorce her as long as he lives.
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If, however, the charge is true and no proof of the young woman’s virginity can be found,
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If a man happens to meet in a town a virgin pledged to be married and he sleeps with her,
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If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered,
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After the two months, she returned to her father, and he did to her as he had vowed. And she was a virgin. From this comes the Israelite tradition
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Look, here is my virgin daughter, and his concubine. I will bring them out to you now, and you can use them and do to them whatever you wish. But as for this man, don’t do such an outrageous thing.”
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“This is what you are to do,” they said. “Kill every male and every woman who is not a virgin.”
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Amnon became so obsessed with his sister Tamar that he made himself ill. She was a virgin, and it seemed impossible for him to do anything to her.
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So his servant put her out and bolted the door after her. She was wearing an ornate robe, for this was the kind of garment the virgin daughters of the king wore.
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So his attendants said to him, “Let us look for a young virgin to serve the king and take care of him. She can lie beside him so that our lord the king may keep warm.”
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This is the word that the Lord has spoken against him: “‘Virgin Daughter Zion despises you and mocks you. Daughter Jerusalem tosses her head as you flee.
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Then the king’s personal attendants proposed, “Let a search be made for beautiful young virgins for the king.
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Now the king was attracted to Esther more than to any of the other women, and she won his favor and approval more than any of the other virgins. So he set a royal crown on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti.
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Mordecai Uncovers a Conspiracy
When the virgins were assembled a second time, Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate.
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In embroidered garments she is led to the king; her virgin companions follow her— those brought to be with her.
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Sixty queens there may be, and eighty concubines, and virgins beyond number;
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Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.
