SinaiDeuteronomy 22:18
American Standard Version
And the elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him;
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Deuteronomy 22:18 in other translations
The elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him.
Deuteronomy 22:18 in context
- 16and the damsel’s father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her;
- 17and, lo, he hath laid shameful things to her charge, saying, I found not in thy daughter the tokens of virginity; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter’s virginity. And they shall spread the garment before the elders of the city.
- 18And the elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him;
- 19and they shall fine him a 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.
- 20But if this thing be true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the damsel;