Deuteronomy 22:14

American Standard Version

and lay shameful things to her charge, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came nigh to her, I found not in her the tokens of virginity;

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Deuteronomy 22:14 in other translations

accuses her of shameful things, gives her a bad name, and says, “I took this woman, and when I came near to her, I didn’t find in her the tokens of virginity;”

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Deuteronomy 22:14 in context

  1. 12Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four borders of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself.
  2. 13If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,
  3. 14and lay shameful things to her charge, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came nigh to her, I found not in her the tokens of virginity;
  4. 15then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel’s virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate;
  5. 16and the damsel’s father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her;