Deuteronomy 22
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Deuteronomy 22:13-19

13“If a man marries a woman, has sexual relations with her, and comes to hate her,

14and accuses her of shameful conduct, and gives her a bad name, saying, ‘I married this woman and was intimate with her, but I didn’t find any evidence of her virginity,’

15the young woman’s father and mother will take the evidence of her virginity and bring it to the city elders at the city gate.

16The young woman’s father will say to the elders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man as a wife, but he hates her.

17He has accused her of shameful conduct, saying, “I didn’t find any evidence of your daughter’s virginity,” but here is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity.’ They will spread out the cloth before the city elders.

18Then the elders of that city will take the man and punish him.

19They will also fine him a hundred silver shekels and give them to the young woman’s father, because that man gave an Israelite virgin a bad name. She will remain his wife; he cannot divorce her as long as he lives.

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