A moment in scripture
Deuteronomy 22:14
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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:
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The surrounding passage
- Deuteronomy 22:12
Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself.
- Deuteronomy 22:13
If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,
- Deuteronomy 22:15
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:
- Deuteronomy 22:16
And the damsel’s father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her;
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.