jps - Deuteronomy:22:13-21

jps@Deuteronomy:22:13 @ If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,

jps@Deuteronomy:22:14 @ and lay wanton charges against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say: 'I took this woman, and when I came nigh to her, I found not in her the tokens of virginity';

jps@Deuteronomy:22:15 @ then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate.

jps@Deuteronomy:22:16 @ And the damsel's father shall say unto the elders: 'I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her;

jps@Deuteronomy:22:17 @ and, lo, he hath laid wanton charges, saying: I found not in thy daughter the tokens of virginity; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity.' And they shall spread the garment before the elders of the city.

jps@Deuteronomy:22:18 @ And the elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him.

jps@Deuteronomy:22:19 @ And they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel; and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.

jps@Deuteronomy:22:20 @ But if this thing be true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the damsel;

jps@Deuteronomy:22:21 @ then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die; because she hath wrought a wanton deed in Israel, to play the harlot in her father's house; so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee.