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HH Yes, there is a reason to believe that. Loss of virginity before
marriage was a capital offense:
Deut. 22:13 If a man takes a wife and, after lying with her, dislikes her
Deut. 22:14 and slanders her and gives her a bad name, saying, “I
married this woman, but when I approached her, I did not find proof of
her virginity,”
Deut. 22:15 then the girl’s father and mother shall bring proof that she
was a virgin to the town elders at the gate.
Deut. 22:16 The girl’s father will say to the elders, “I gave my
daughter in marriage to this man, but he dislikes her.
Deut. 22:17 Now he has slandered her and said, ‘I did not find your
daughter to be a virgin.’ But here is the proof of my daughter’s
virginity.” Then her parents shall display the cloth before the elders
of the town,
Deut. 22:18 and the elders shall take the man and punish him.
Deut. 22:19 They shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give
them to the girl’s father, because this man has given an Israelite
virgin a bad name. She shall continue to be his wife; he must not
divorce her as long as he lives.
Deut. 22:20 ¶ If, however, the charge is true and no proof of the girl’s
virginity can be found,
Deut. 22:21 she shall be brought to the door of her father’s house and
there the men of her town shall stone her to death. She has done a
disgraceful thing in Israel by being promiscuous while still in her
father’s house. You must purge the evil from among you.
Yours,
Harold Holmyard
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