Holman Christian Standard Bible

Deuteronomy 22:16-22 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

16. The young woman’s father will say to the elders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man as a wife, but he hates her.

17. He has accused her of shameful conduct, saying: “I didn’t find any evidence of your daughter’s virginity,” but here is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity.’ They will spread out the cloth before the city elders.

18. Then the elders of that city will take the man and punish him.

19. They will also fine him 100 silver shekels and give them to the young woman’s father, because that man gave an Israelite virgin a bad name. She will remain his wife; he cannot divorce her as long as he lives.

20. But if this accusation is true and no evidence of the young woman’s virginity is found,

21. they will bring the woman to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city will stone her to death. For she has committed an outrage in Israel by being promiscuous in her father’s house. You must purge the evil from you.

22. “If a man is discovered having sexual relations with another man’s wife, both the man who had sex with the woman and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.