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If any man takes a wife ,
and goes in to her ,
and then spurns her ,
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and charges her with shameful conduct ,
and brings an evil name upon her ,
saying , `
I took this woman ,
and when I came near her ,
I did not find in her the tokens of virginity ,'
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then the father of the young woman and her mother shall take and bring out the tokens of her virginity to the elders of the city in the gate ;
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and the father of the young woman shall say to the elders , `
I gave my daughter to this man to wife ,
and he spurns her ;
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and lo ,
he has made shameful charges against her ,
saying , "
I did not find in your 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 .
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Then the elders of that city shall take the man and whip him ;
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and they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver ,
and give them to the father of the young woman ,
because he has brought an evil name upon a virgin of Israel ;
and she shall be his wife ;
he may not put her away all his days .
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But if the thing is true ,
that the tokens of virginity were not found in 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 wrought folly in Israel by playing the harlot in her father '
s house ;
so you shall purge the evil from the midst of you .
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If a man is found lying with the wife of another man ,
both of them shall die ,
the man who lay with the woman ,
and the woman ;
so you shall purge the evil from Israel .
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If there is a betrothed virgin ,
and a man meets 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 for help though she was in the city ,
and the man because he violated his neighbor '
s wife ;
so you shall purge the evil from the midst of you .
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But if in the open country a man meets a young woman who is betrothed ,
and the man seizes her and lies with her ,
then only the man who lay with her shall die .
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But to the young woman you shall do nothing ;
in the young woman there is no offense punishable by death ,
for this case is like that of a man attacking and murdering his neighbor ;
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because he came upon her in the open country ,
and though the betrothed young woman cried for help there was no one to rescue her .
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If a man meets a virgin who is not betrothed ,
and seizes her and lies with her ,
and they are found ,
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then the man who lay with her shall give to the father of the young woman fifty shekels of silver ,
and she shall be his wife ,
because he has violated her ;
he may not put her away all his days .
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A man shall not take his father '
s wife ,
nor shall he uncover her who is his father '
s .