14 and he charges her with shameful behavior and [a]publicly defames her, and says, ‘I took this woman, but when I came near her, I did not find her to have evidence of virginity,’ 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. 16 And the girl’s father shall say to the elders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man as a wife, but he [b]turned against her;

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 22:14 Lit brings out an evil reputation against her
  2. Deuteronomy 22:16 Lit hated her

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