◄ Deuteronomy 22:20 ►
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Good News Translation
"But if the charge is true and there is no proof that she was a virgin,

New Revised Standard Version
If, however, this charge is true, that evidence of the young woman’s virginity was not found,

Contemporary English Version
But if the man was right and there is no proof that his bride was a virgin,

New American Bible
But if this charge is true, and evidence of the young woman’s virginity is not found,

Douay-Rheims Bible
But if what he charged her with be true, and virginity be not found in the damsel:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But if what he charged her with be true, and virginity be not found in the damsel:

Context
Marriage Violations
…19Condemning him besides in a hundred sicles of silver, which he shall give to the damsel's father, because he hath defamed by a very ill name a virgin of Israel: and he shall have her to wife, and may not put her away all the days of his life. 20But if what he charged her with be true, and virginity be not found in the damsel:21They shall cast her out of the doors of her father's house, and the men of the city shall stone her to death, and she shall die: because she hath done a wicked thing in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: and thou shalt take away the evil out of the midst of thee.…
Cross References
Matthew 1:19
Whereupon Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing publicly to expose her, was minded to put her away privately.

Genesis 34:7
Behold his sons came from the field: and hearing what had passed, they were exceeding angry, because he had done a foul thing in Israel, and committed an unlawful act, in ravishing Jacob's daughter.

Deuteronomy 17:4
And this is told thee, and hearing it thou hast inquired diligently, and found it to be true, and that the abomination is committed in Israel:

Deuteronomy 22:19
Condemning him besides in a hundred sicles of silver, which he shall give to the damsel's father, because he hath defamed by a very ill name a virgin of Israel: and he shall have her to wife, and may not put her away all the days of his life.

Deuteronomy 22:19
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