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Darby's French Translation
Deutéronome 22:15
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Le pčre et la mčre de la jeune fille prendront et produiront les marques de sa virginité devant les anciens de la ville, ŕ la porte;
alors le pčre et la mčre de la jeune femme prendront les signes de sa virginité et les produiront devant les anciens de la ville, ŕ la porte.
Alors le pčre et la mčre de la jeune fille prendront et produiront les marques de sa virginité devant les Anciens de la ville, ŕ la porte.
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Gill's Notes on the Bible
Then shall the father and the mother of the damsel take,.... Power from the court, according to the Targum of Jonathan; having leave and licence granted them to do what follows, these were to, and would, concern themselves in such an affair, partly for the credit and reputation of their child, and partly for their own honour, who were in danger, as Jarchi observes, of coming into contempt for their ill education of her:
and bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity; the sheet she lay in when she first bedded with her husband, in her parents' possession, and kept by them as a witness of her purity, should there ever be any occasion for it: and which were to be brought
unto the elders of the city in the gate; which sat in the gate of the city to try causes: the Targum of Jonathan calls it the gate of the sanhedrim, or court of judicature; and, according to Maimonides q, this court was the court of twenty three judges; for this was a capital crime accused of, a cause relating to life and death, which could not be heard and tried in a lesser court.
q Hilchot Naarah Betulah, c. 3. sect. 3.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Deuteronomy 22:15. Tokens of the damsel's virginity — This was a perfectly possible case in all places where girls were married at ten, twelve, and fourteen years of age, which is frequent in the East. I have known several instances of persons having had two or three children at separate births before they were fourteen years of age. Such tokens, therefore, as the text speaks of, must be infallibly exhibited by females so very young on the consummation of their marriage.
