If a man take a wife and when he hath lien with her hate
her and lay shameful things unto her charge and bring up an evil
name upon her and say: I took this wife, and when I came to her, I
found her not a maid: Then let the father of the damsel and the
mother bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity, unto the
elders of the city, even unto the gate. And let the damsel's
father say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to
wife and he hateth her: and lo, he layeth shameful things unto her
charge saying, I found not thy daughter a maid. And yet these are
the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And let them spread the
vesture before the elders of the city. Then let the elders of that
city take that man and chastise him and merce him in an hundred
sicles of silver and give them unto the father of the damsel,
because he hath brought up an evil name upon a maid in Israel. And
she shall be his wife, and he may not put her away all his days.
But and if the thing be of a surety that the damsel be not found a
virgin, let them bring her unto the door of her father's house,
and let the men of that city stone her with stones to death,
because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her
father's house.
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