05:022:013 If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,
05:022:014 And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an
evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her,
I found her not a maid:
05:022:015 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:
05:022:016 And the damsel's father shall say unto the elders, I gave my
daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her;
05:022:017 And, lo, he hath given occasions of speech against her,
saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these are the tokens
of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the
elders of the city.
05:022:018 And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise
him;
05:022:019 And they shall amerce him in an 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.
05:022:020 But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be
not found for the damsel:
05:022:021 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 folly in Israel, to play the
whore in her father's house: so shalt thou put evil away from among
you.
05:022:022 If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband,
then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman,
and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.
05:022:023 If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband,
and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;
05:022:024 Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that
city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel,
because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath
humbled his neighbour's wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among
you.
05:022:025 But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the
man force her, and lie with her: then the man only that lay with her
shall die.
05:022:026 But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the
damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man riseth against his
neighbour, and slayeth him, even so is this matter:
05:022:027 For he found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel
cried, and there was none to save her.
05:022:028 If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not
betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;
05:022:029 Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's
father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he
hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.
05:022:030 A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his
father's skirt.
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