Deuteronomy 22:15 then the young woman's father and mother shall bring to the town elders at the gate proof that she was a virgin.

◄ Deuteronomy 22:15 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
then the young woman's father and mother shall bring to the town elders at the gate proof that she was a virgin.

English Standard Version
then the father of the young woman and her mother shall take and bring out the evidence of her virginity to the elders of the city in the gate.

New American Standard Bible
then the girl's father and her mother shall take and bring out the evidence of the girl's virginity to the elders of the city at the gate.

King James Bible
Then 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:

Holman Christian Standard Bible
the young woman's father and mother will take the evidence of her virginity and bring it to the city elders at the gate.

International Standard Version
Then the father of the young lady, along with her mother, is to bring evidence of the young lady's virginity to the elders at the gate.

American Standard Version
then 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;

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:

Darby Bible Translation
then 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;

Young's Literal Translation
'Then hath the father of the damsel -- and her mother -- taken and brought out the tokens of virginity of the damsel unto the elders of the city in the gate,

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

22:13-30 These and the like regulations might be needful then, and yet it is not necessary that we should curiously examine respecting them. The laws relate to the seventh commandment, laying a restraint upon fleshly lusts which war against the soul.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

13-30. If a man take a wife, &c.—The regulations that follow might be imperatively needful in the then situation of the Israelites; and yet, it is not necessary that we should curiously and impertinently inquire into them. So far was it from being unworthy of God to leave such things upon record, that the enactments must heighten our admiration of His wisdom and goodness in the management of a people so perverse and so given to irregular passions. Nor is it a better argument that the Scriptures were not written by inspiration of God to object that this passage, and others of a like nature, tend to corrupt the imagination and will be abused by evil-disposed readers, than it is to say that the sun was not created by God, because its light may be abused by wicked men as an assistant in committing crimes which they have meditated [Horne].