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If any man take a wife, and go in vnto her, and hate her,

And giue occasions of speach against her, and bring vp an euill name vpon her, and say, I tooke this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a mayd:

Then shal the father of the damosell, and her mother take, and bring forth the tokens of the damosels virginitie, vnto the Elders of the citie in the gate.

And the damosels father shall say vnto the Elders, I gaue my daughter vnto this man to wife, & he hateth her:

And loe, he hath giuen occasions of speech against her, saying, I found not thy daughter a maid: and yet these are the tokens of my daughters virginity; and they shall spread the cloth before the Elders of the citie.

And the Elders of that citie shall take that man, and chastise him.

And they shall amearse him in an hundred shekels of siluer, and giue them vnto the father of the damosell, because he hath brought vp an euill name vpon a virgine of Israel: and she shall be his wife, hee may not put her away all his dayes.

But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginitie be not found for the damosel:

Then they shall bring out the damosell to the doore of her fathers house, and the men of her city shal stone her with stones that she die, because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her fathers house: so shalt thou put euill away from among you.

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 euill from Israel.

If a damosell that is a virgin be betrothed vnto an husband, and a man find her in the citie, and lie with her:

Then yee shall bring them both out vnto the gate of that citie, and yee shall stone them with stones that they die; the damosel, because shee cried not, being in the citie; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbours wife: so thou shalt put away euill from among you.

But if a man find a betrothed damosel in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her: then the man only that lay with her, shall die.

But vnto the damosel thou shalt doe nothing, there is in the damosel no sinne worthy of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, euen so is this matter.

For he found her in the field, and the betrothed damosel cried, and there was none to saue her.

If a man finde a damosel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found:

Then the man that lay with her, shall giue vnto the damosels father fifty shekels of siluer, and she shalbe his wife, because he hath humbled her: he may not put her away all his dayes.

A man shall not take his fathers wife, nor discouer his fathers skirt.