Deuteronomy 22:13-21

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

¹³ If any man takes a wife and goes in to her, and then scorns her

¹⁴ And charges her with shameful things and gives her an evil reputation, and says, I took this woman, but when I came to her, I did not find in her the tokens of a virgin,

¹⁵ Then the father of the young woman, and her mother, shall get and bring out the tokens of her virginity to the elders of the city at the gate.

¹⁶ And her father shall say to the elders, I gave my daughter to this man as wife, but he hates and spurns her;

¹⁷ And behold, he has made shameful charges against her, saying, I found not in your daughter the evidences of her 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 rebuke and whip him.

¹⁹ And they shall fine him 100 shekels of silver and give them to the father of the young woman, because he has brought an evil name upon a virgin of Israel. And she shall be his wife; he may not divorce her all his days.

²⁰ But if it is true that the evidences of virginity were not found in the young woman,

²¹ Then they shall bring her to the door of her father’s house and the men of her city shall stone her to death, because she has wrought [criminal] folly in Israel by playing the harlot in her father’s house. So you shall put away the evil from among you.