Laws Concerning Sexual Immorality

Deuteronomy 22

13 If any man takes a wife and goes in to her, and then scorns her 14 And charges her with shameful things and gives her an evil reputation, and says, I took this woman, but when I came to her, I did not find in her the tokens of a virgin, 15 Then the father of the young woman, and her mother, shall get and bring out the tokens of her virginity to the elders of the city at the gate. 16 And her father shall say to the elders, I gave my daughter to this man as wife, but he hates and spurns her; 17 And behold, he has made shameful charges against her, saying, I found not in your daughter the evidences of her virginity. And yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the garment before the elders of the city, 18 And the elders of that city shall take the man and rebuke and whip him. 19 And they shall fine him 100 shekels of silver and give them to the father of the young woman, because he has brought an evil name upon a virgin of Israel. And she shall be his wife; he may not divorce her all his days. 20 But if it is true that the evidences of virginity were not found in the young woman, 21 Then they shall bring her to the door of her father's house and the men of her city shall stone her to death, because she has wrought [criminal] folly in Israel by playing the harlot in her father's house. So you shall put away the evil from among you.

22 If a man is found lying with another man's wife, they shall both die, the man who lay with the woman and the woman. So you shall purge the evil from Israel.

23 If a maiden who is a virgin is engaged to be married, and a man finds her in the city and lies with her, 24 Then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city and shall stone them to death--the young woman because she did not cry for help though she was in the city, and the man because he has violated his neighbor's [promised] wife. So shall you put away evil from among you.

25 But if a man finds the betrothed maiden in the open country and the man seizes her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die. 26 But you shall do nothing to the young woman; she has committed no sin punishable by death, for this is as when a man attacks and slays his neighbor, 27 For he came upon her in the open country, and the betrothed girl cried out, but there was no one to save her.

28 If a man finds a girl who is a virgin, who is not betrothed, and he seizes her and lies with her and they are found, 29 Then the man who lay with her shall give to the girl's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has violated her; he may not divorce her all his days.

30 A man shall not take his father's former wife, nor shall he uncover her who belongs to his father.

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