Verse 20
Deuteronomy 22:20
Bible in Basic English
20
But if what he has said is true, and she is seen to be not a virgin,
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/אִם אֱמֶ֣ת הָיָ֔ה הַ/דָּבָ֖ר הַ/זֶּ֑ה לֹא נִמְצְא֥וּ בְתוּלִ֖ים ל/נער לַֽ/נַּעֲרָֽה
English Translation
And if this thing was true, they did not find virgins from a young man to a young woman.
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Chapter 22 Context
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If you see your brother's ox or his sheep wandering, do not go by without helping, but take them bac...
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If their owner is not near, or if you are not certain who he is, then take the beast to your house a...
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Do the same with his ass or his robe or anything which has gone from your brother's keeping and whic...
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If you see your brother's ox or his ass falling down on the road, do not go by without giving him he...
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It is not right for a woman to be dressed in man's clothing, or for a man to put on a woman's robe:...
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If by chance you see a place which a bird has made for itself in a tree or on the earth, with young...
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See that you let the mother bird go, but the young ones you may take; so it will be well for you and...
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If you are building a house, make a railing for the roof, so that the blood of any man falling from...
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9
Do not have your vine-garden planted with two sorts of seed: or all of it may become a loss, the see...
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10
Do not do your ploughing with an ox and an ass yoked together.
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Do not have clothing made of two sorts of thread, wool and linen together.
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12
On the four edges of your robe, with which your body is covered, put ornaments of twisted threads.
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13
If any man takes a wife, and having had connection with her, has no delight in her,
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And says evil things about her and gives her a bad name, saying, I took this woman, and when I had c...
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Then let the girl's father and mother put before the responsible men of the town, in the public plac...
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And let the girl's father say to the responsible men, I gave my daughter to this man for his wife, b...
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And now he has put shame on her, saying that she is not a virgin; but here is the sign that she is a...
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Then the responsible men of the town are to give the man his punishment;
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They will take from him a hundred shekels of silver, which are to be given to the father of the girl...
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20
But if what he has said is true, and she is seen to be not a virgin,
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Then they are to make the girl come to the door of her father's house and she will be stoned to deat...
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If a man is taken in the act of going in to a married woman, the two of them, the man as well as the...
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If a young virgin has given her word to be married to a man, and another man meeting her in the town...
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Then you are to take the two of them to the doorway of the town, and have them stoned to death; the...
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But if the man, meeting such a virgin in the open country, takes her by force, then only the man is...
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Nothing is to be done to the virgin, because there is no cause of death in her: it is the same as if...
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For he came across her in the open country, and there was no one to come to the help of the virgin i...
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If a man sees a young virgin, who has not given her word to be married to anyone, and he takes her b...
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Then the man will have to give the virgin's father fifty shekels of silver and make her his wife, be...
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A man may not take his father's wife or have sex relations with a woman who is his father's.
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