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Deuteronomy 22:19

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And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.

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The surrounding passage

  1. Deuteronomy 22:17

    And, lo, he hath given occasions of speech against her, saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter’s virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.

  2. Deuteronomy 22:18

    And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him;

  3. Deuteronomy 22:20

    But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel:

  4. Deuteronomy 22:21

    Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father’s house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.