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13 “If a man takes a woman and he has sex with her,[a] but he then dislikes her,[b] 14 and he accuses her falsely,[c] and he defames her,[d] and he says ‘This woman I took and I lay with her and I discovered that she was not a virgin,’[e] 15 then in defense the father of the young woman shall take, along with her mother, and together they must bring out the evidence of the virginity of the young woman to display it to the elders of the city at the city gate.[f]

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 22:13 Literally “and he goes unto her”
  2. Deuteronomy 22:13 Literally “hates her”
  3. Deuteronomy 22:14 Literally “he puts to her deeds of words”
  4. Deuteronomy 22:14 Literally “he brings forth against her a bad name”
  5. Deuteronomy 22:14 Literally “I found not with her virginity”
  6. Deuteronomy 22:15 Literally “toward the city gate”