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Deuteronomy 22:20
“But if this thing be true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the young lady;”
Verse in context — Deuteronomy 22
The elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him;
and they shall fine him one hundred [shekels] of silver, and give them to the father of the young lady, because he has brought up an evil name on a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.
But if this thing be true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the young lady;
then they shall bring out the young lady 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 folly in Israel, to play the prostitute in her father's house: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.
If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman: so you shall put away the evil from Israel.
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Moses’ final speeches, reminding Israel of God’s law before entering the Promised Land.
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