Deuteronomy 22:18-20

The Voice

¹⁸ the city elders must punish the husband. He is to be beaten ¹⁹ and then fined two and a half pounds of silver, twice the amount of the bride price he paid before the marriage, which will be given to the girl’s father because this man publicly slandered one of Israel’s virgins. He can’t ever divorce her after this; he has to keep her as his wife. ²⁰ But if the charge is true, and the girl wasn’t a virgin,