Deuteronomy 22:13-30
1599 Geneva Bible
13 ¶ If a man take a wife, and when he hath lain with her, hate her,
14 And lay [a]slanderous things unto her charge, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this wife, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid,
15 Then shall the father of the maid and her mother take and bring the signs of the maid’s virginity unto the Elders of the city to the gate.
16 And the maid’s father shall say unto the Elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife and he hateth her:
17 And lo, he layeth slanderous things unto her charge, saying, I found not thy daughter a maid: lo, these are the tokens of my daughter’s virginity: and they shall spread the [b]vesture before the Elders of the city.
18 Then the Elders of the city shall take that man and chastise him,
19 And shall condemn him in an hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father [c]of the maid, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a maid of Israel: and she shall be his wife, and he may not put her away all his life.
20 But if this thing be true, that the maid be not found a virgin,
21 Then shall they bring forth the maid to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones to death: for she hath wrought folly in Israel, by playing the whore in her father’s house: so thou shalt put evil away from among you.
22 ¶ (A)If a man be found lying with a woman married to a man, then they shall die even both twain: to wit, the man that lay with the wife, and the wife: so thou shalt put away evil from Israel.
23 ¶ If a maid be betrothed unto a husband, and a man find her in the town and lie with her,
24 Then shall ye bring them both out unto the gates of the same city, and shall stone them with stones to death: the maid because she cried not, being in the city, and the man, because he hath [d]humbled his neighbor’s wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you.
25 ¶ But if a man find a betrothed maid in the field and force her, and lie with her, then the man that lay with her, shall die alone:
26 And unto the maid thou shalt do nothing, because there is in the maid no [e]cause of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbor and woundeth him to death, so [f]is this matter.
27 For he found her in the fields: the betrothed maid cried, and there was no man to succor her.
28 ¶ (B)If a man find a maid that is not betrothed, and take her, and lie with her, and they be found,
29 Then the man that lay with her, shall give unto the maid’s father fifty shekels of silver: and she shall be his wife, because he hath humbled her: he can not put her away all his life.
30 ¶ No man shall [g]take his father’s wife, nor shall uncover his father’s skirt.
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- Deuteronomy 22:14 That is, be an occasion that she is slandered.
- Deuteronomy 22:17 Meaning, the sheet, wherein the signs of her virginity were.
- Deuteronomy 22:19 For the fault of the child redoundeth to the shame of the parents: therefore he was recompensed when she was faultless.
- Deuteronomy 22:24 Or, defiled.
- Deuteronomy 22:26 Or, no sin worthy of death.
- Deuteronomy 22:26 Meaning, that the innocent cannot be punished.
- Deuteronomy 22:30 He shall not lie with his stepmother, meaning hereby all other degrees forbidden, Lev. 18.
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