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If a man takes a wife and, after sleeping with her, dislikes her
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and slanders her and gives her a bad name, saying, “I married this woman, but when I approached her, I did not find proof of her virginity,”
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then the young woman’s father and mother shall bring to the town elders at the gate proof that she was a virgin.
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Her father will say to the elders, “I gave my daughter in marriage to this man, but he dislikes her.
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Now he has slandered her and said, ‘I did not find your daughter to be a virgin.’ But here is the proof of my daughter’s virginity.” Then her parents shall display the cloth before the elders of the town,
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and the elders shall take the man and punish him.
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They shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the young woman’s father, because this man has given an Israelite virgin a bad name. She shall continue to be his wife; he must not divorce her as long as he lives.
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If, however, the charge is true and no proof of the young woman’s virginity can be found,
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she shall be brought to the door of her father’s house and there the men of her town shall stone her to death. She has done an outrageous thing in Israel by being promiscuous while still in her father’s house. You must purge the evil from among you.
