Laws on Morality

13 (A)If any man takes a wife and goes in to her and then [a]turns against her, 14 and charges her with shameful deeds and [b]publicly defames her, and says, ‘I took this woman, but when I came near her, I did not find her a virgin,’ 15 then the girl’s father and her mother shall take and bring out the evidence of the girl’s virginity to the elders of the city at the gate.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 22:13 Lit hates her
  2. Deuteronomy 22:14 Lit causes an evil name to go out against her