0 What should a man do if he finds out that his wife isn't a virgin on his wedding night?

What should a man do if he finds out that his wife isn't a virgin on his wedding night?


Tell his wife's parents. If they can't find the tokens of her virginity, then all the men of the city must stone her to death at the door of her father's house.

Fewer Words Version: If a man gets married, has sex with his wife, and then hates her and says, "I took this woman, and when I had sex with her, I found out that she wasn't a virgin."

Then the woman's father and mother will bring the tokens of their daughters virginity to the city elders, and say to them: "These are the tokens of my daughter's virginity."

And they shall spread the cloth in front of the elders.

The elders will chastise the man and make him pay one hundred shekels of silver to his wife's father. And the woman shall be the man's wife for the rest of his life.

But if the woman's tokens of virginity cannot be found, she will be brought to her father's house, and all the men of the city will stone her to death. Because she has played the whore in her father's house. Deuteronomy 22:13-21

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