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The Book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 22, Verse 18

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And, lo, he hath given occasions of speech [against her], saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these [are the tokens of] my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.
King James Version
And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him;
American Standard Version
And the elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him;
New English Translation
The elders of that city must then seize the man and punish him.
World English Bible
The elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him;
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And they shall amerce him in an hundred [shekels] of silver, and give [them] unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.
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But if this thing be true, [and the tokens of] virginity be not found for the damsel:
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Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.
22
If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, [both] the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.
23
If a damsel [that is] a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;
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Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, [being] in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you.
25
But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her: then the man only that lay with her shall die:
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But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; [there is] in the damsel no sin [worthy] of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so [is] this matter:
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For he found her in the field, [and] the betrothed damsel cried, and [there was] none to save her.
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If a man find a damsel [that is] a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;