father say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife
and he hateth her: and lo, he layeth shameful things unto her charge
saying, I found not thy daughter a maid. And yet these are the tokens
of my daughter's virginity. And let them spread the vesture before the
elders of the city. Then let the elders of that city take that man and
chastise him and merce him in an hundred sicles of silver and give them
unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name
upon a maid in Israel. And she shall be his wife, and he may not put
her away all his days. But and if the thing be of a surety that the
damsel be not found a virgin, let them bring her unto the door of her
father's house, and let the men of that city stone her with stones to
death, because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in
her father's house. And so thou shalt put evil away from thee. If a man
be found lying with a woman, that hath a wedded husband, then let them
die either other of them: both the man that lie with the wife and also
the wife: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel. If a maid be
handfasted unto an husband, and then a man find her in the town and lay
with her, then ye shall bring them both out unto the gates of that same
city and shall stone them with stones to death: The damsel because she
cried not being in the city: And the man, because he hath humbled his
neighbour's wife, and thou shalt put away evil from thee. But if a man
find a betrothed damsel in the field and force her and lie with her:
Then the man that lay with her shall die alone, and unto the damsel
thou shalt do no harm: because there is in the damsel no cause of
death. For as when a man riseth against his neighbour and slayeth him,
even so is this matter. For he found her in the fields and the
betrothed damsel cried: but there was no man to succour her. If a man
find a maid that is not betrothed and take her and lie with her and be
found: Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's
father fifty sicles of silver. And she shall be his wife, because he
hath humbled her, and he may not put her away all his days. No man
shall take his father's wife, nor unhele his father's covering.
Chapter .xxiij.
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