Deuteronomy 22:15
Good News Translation
"If this happens, the young woman's parents are to take the blood-stained wedding sheet that proves she was a virgin, and they are to show it in court to the town leaders.

New Revised Standard Version
The father of the young woman and her mother shall then submit the evidence of the young woman’s virginity to the elders of the city at the gate.

Contemporary English Version
If this happens, the bride's father and mother must go to the town gate to show the town leaders the proof that the woman was a virgin.

New American Bible
the father and mother of the young woman shall take the evidence of her virginity and bring it to the elders at the city gate.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Her father and mother shall take her, and shall bring with them the tokens of her virginity to the ancients of the city that are in the gate:

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Her father and mother shall take her, and shall bring with them the tokens of her virginity to the ancients of the city that are in the gate:

Deuteronomy 22:19 Condemning him besides in a hundred sicles of silver, which he shall give to the damsel's father, because he hath defamed by a very ill name a virgin of Israel: and he shall have her to wife, and may not put her away all the days of his life.

Context
Marriage Violations
14And seek occasions to put her away, laying to her charge a very ill name, and say: I took this woman to wife, and going in to her, I found her not a virgin: 15Her father and mother shall take her, and shall bring with them the tokens of her virginity to the ancients of the city that are in the gate:16And the father shall say: I gave my daughter unto this man to wife: and because he hateth her,…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 22:14
And seek occasions to put her away, laying to her charge a very ill name, and say: I took this woman to wife, and going in to her, I found her not a virgin:

Deuteronomy 22:16
And the father shall say: I gave my daughter unto this man to wife: and because he hateth her,

Deuteronomy 22:14
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