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Deuteronomy

Laws of Chastity

Deuteronomy 22:13-30
13For a man takes a woman and comes to her and hates her. 14And he makes wantonness of words for her and brings out upon her a bad name and says, "I took this woman and came near to her, and I did not find virginity for her." 15And the father of the maiden and her mother take and bring out the virginity of the maiden to the elders of the city at the gate. 16And the father of the maiden says to the elders, "I gave my daughter to this man for a woman, and he hated her." 17And behold, he has set forth wanton charges, saying, "I did not find your daughter a virgin," and yet these are the signs of my daughter's virginity; and they spread the garment before the elders of the city. 18And the elders of that city take the man and discipline him. 19And they fine him a hundred of silver and give it to the father of the maiden, because he brought out a bad name upon a virgin of Israel; and she shall be to him for a wife, and he shall not be able to send her away all his days. 20And if this word is truth, virginity was not found for the maiden. 21And they bring out the maiden to the entrance of the house of her father, and the men of her city stone her with stones, and she dies, for she did folly in Israel to fornicate in the house of her father; and you shall burn the bad from among you. 22For a man is found lying down with a woman married to a master, and both of them die, the man who lay down with the woman and the woman; and you shall burn the bad from Israel. 23For a maiden virgin is betrothed to a man, and a man finds her in the city and lies down with her. 24And you bring out both of them to the gate of that city and stone them with stones, and they die, the maiden upon the word that she did not cry in the city and the man upon the word that he afflicted his neighbor's woman; and you shall burn the bad from among you. 25And if the man finds the maiden the betrothed in the land and the man strengthens in her and lies down with her, then the man who lay down with her dies alone. 26And to the maiden you shall not do a word; there is nothing to the maiden, sin of death, for like as a man rises upon his neighbor and murders a soul, so is this word. 27For in the land he found her; the maiden the betrothed cried, and there was nothing to save her. 28If a man finds a virgin maiden who is not betrothed, and he seizes her and lies with her, and they are found, 29And the man who lay down with her shall give to the father of the maiden fifty pieces of silver, and she shall be his wife because he has afflicted her; he shall not be able to send her away all his days. 30A man shall not take the wife of his father and shall not uncover the skirt of his father.
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