KJV King James Version
But if this thing be true, [and the tokens of] virginity be not found for the damsel:
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Deuteronomy 22:20
But if this thing be true, [and the tokens of] virginity be not found for the damsel:
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
If, however, this accusation is true, and no proof of the young woman’s virginity can be found,
WEB World English Bible
But if this thing be true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the young lady;
ASV American Standard Version
But if this thing be true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the damsel;
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
‘And if this thing hath been truth—tokens of virginity have not been found for the damsel—
Surrounding context — Deuteronomy 22
17 And, lo, he hath given occasions of speech [against her], saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these [are the tokens of] my daughter’s virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.
18 And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him;
19 And they shall amerce him in an hundred [shekels] of silver, and give [them] unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.
20 But if this thing be true, [and the tokens of] virginity be not found for the damsel:
21 Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father’s house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.
22 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 evil from Israel.
23 If a damsel [that is] a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;
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