Deuteronomy 22:16-18

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁶ And the father shall say: I gave my daughter unto this man to wife: and because he hateth her,

¹⁷ He layeth to her charge a very ill name, so as to say: I found not thy daughter a virgin: and behold these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the ancients of the city:

¹⁸ And the ancients of that city shall take that man, and beat him,