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Deuteronomy 22:17-19
New English Translation
Deuteronomy 22:17-19
New English Translation
17 Moreover, he has raised accusations of impropriety by saying, ‘I discovered your daughter was not a virgin,’ but this is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity!” The cloth must then be spread out[a] before the city’s elders. 18 The elders of that city must then seize the man and punish[b] him. 19 They will fine him 100 shekels of silver and give them to the young woman’s father, for the man who made the accusation[c] ruined the reputation[d] of an Israelite virgin. She will then become his wife, and he may never divorce her as long as he lives.
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- Deuteronomy 22:17 tn Heb “they will spread the garment.”
- Deuteronomy 22:18 tn Heb “discipline.”
- Deuteronomy 22:19 tn Heb “for he”; the referent (the man who made the accusation) has been specified in the translation to avoid confusion with the young woman’s father, the last-mentioned male.
- Deuteronomy 22:19 tn Heb “brought forth a bad name.”
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