New American Bible, Revised Edition

Deuteronomy 22:13-21 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

13. If a man, after marrying a woman and having relations with her, comes to dislike her,

14. and accuses her of misconduct and slanders her by saying, “I married this woman, but when I approached her I did not find evidence of her virginity,”

15. the father and mother of the young woman shall take the evidence of her virginity and bring it to the elders at the city gate.

16. There the father of the young woman shall say to the elders, “I gave my daughter to this man in marriage, but he has come to dislike her,

17. and now accuses her of misconduct, saying: ‘I did not find evidence of your daughter’s virginity.’ But here is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity!” And they shall spread out the cloth before the elders of the city.

18. Then these city elders shall take the man and discipline him,

19. and fine him one hundred silver shekels, which they shall give to the young woman’s father, because the man slandered a virgin in Israel. She shall remain his wife, and he may not divorce her as long as he lives.

20. But if this charge is true, and evidence of the young woman’s virginity is not found,

21. they shall bring the young woman to the entrance of her father’s house and there the men of her town shall stone her to death, because she committed a shameful crime in Israel by prostituting herself in her father’s house. Thus shall you purge the evil from your midst.