Deuteronomy:22:13-29
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If any man takes a wife ,
and goes in to her ,
and detests her ,
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and charges her with shameful conduct ,
and brings a bad name on her ,
and says , "
I took this woman ,
and when I came to her I found she was not a virgin ,'
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then the father and mother of the young woman shall take and bring out the evidence of the young woman '
s virginity to the elders of the city at the gate .
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And the young woman '
s father shall say to the elders , "
I gave my daughter to this man as wife ,
and he detests her .
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Now he has charged her with shameful conduct ,
saying , "
I found your daughter was not a virgin ,"
and yet these are the evidences of my daughter '
s virginity .'
And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city .
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Then the elders of that city shall take that man and punish him ;
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and they shall fine him one hundred shekels of silver and give them to the father of the young woman ,
because he has brought a bad name on a virgin of Israel .
And she shall be his wife ;
he cannot divorce her all his days .
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But if the thing is true ,
and evidences of virginity are not found for the young woman ,
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then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of her father '
s house ,
and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones ,
because she has done a disgraceful thing in Israel ,
to play the harlot in her father '
s house .
So you shall put away the evil from among you .
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If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband ,
then both of them shall die--the man that lay with the woman ,
and the woman ;
so you shall put away the evil from Israel .
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If a young woman who is a virgin is betrothed to a husband ,
and a man finds her in the city and lies with her ,
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then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city ,
and you shall stone them to death with stones ,
the young woman because she did not cry out in the city ,
and the man because he humbled his neighbor '
s wife ;
so you shall put away the evil from among you .
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But if a man finds a betrothed young woman in the countryside ,
and the man forces her and lies with her ,
then only the man who lay with her shall die .
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But you shall do nothing to the young woman ;
there is in the young woman no sin deserving of death ,
for just as when a man rises against his neighbor and kills him ,
even so is this matter .
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For he found her in the countryside ,
and the betrothed young woman cried out ,
but there was no one to save her .
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If a man finds a young woman who is a virgin ,
who is not betrothed ,
and he seizes her and lies with her ,
and they are found out ,
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then the man who lay with her shall give to the young woman '
s father fifty shekels of silver ,
and she shall be his wife because he has humbled her ;
he shall not be permitted to divorce her all his days .