Deuteronomy 22:19

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17 Now he has charged her with shameful conduct, saying, “I found your daughter was not a virgin,” and yet these are the evidences of my daughter’s virginity.’ And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.

18 Then the elders of that city shall take that man and punish him;

19 and they shall fine him one hundred shekels of silver and give them to the father of the young woman, because he has brought a bad name on a virgin of Israel. And she shall be his wife; he cannot divorce her all his days.

20 “But if the thing is true, and evidences of virginity are not found for the young woman,

21 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 ^astones, because she has ^bdone a disgraceful thing in Israel, to play the harlot in her father’s house. ^cSo you shall put away the evil from among you.

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Barnes' Notes

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Deuteronomy 22:19

The fine was to be paid to the father, because the slander was against him principally as the head of the wife' s family. If the damsel were an orphan the fine reverted to herself. The fact that the penalties attached to bearing false witness against a wife are fixed and comparatively light indicates the low estimation and position of the woman at that time.

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