Deuteronomy 22:20 If, however, the charge is true and no proof of the young woman's virginity can be found,

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
If, however, the charge is true and no proof of the young woman's virginity can be found,

English Standard Version
But if the thing is true, that evidence of virginity was not found in the young woman,

New American Standard Bible
"But if this charge is true, that the girl was not found a virgin,

King James Bible
But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel:

Holman Christian Standard Bible
But if this accusation is true and no evidence of the young woman's virginity is found,

International Standard Version
But if this charge is true, and the evidence of the young lady's virginity weren't found,

American Standard Version
But if this thing be true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the damsel;

Douay-Rheims Bible
But if what he charged her with be true, and virginity be not found in the damsel:

Darby Bible Translation
But if this thing is true, and virginity hath not been found with the damsel;

Young's Literal Translation
'And if this thing hath been truth -- tokens of virginity have not been found for the damsel --

Cross References

Matthew 1:19
Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privately.

Genesis 34:7
And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had worked folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter: which thing ought not to be done.

Deuteronomy 17:4
And it be told you, and you have heard of it, and inquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is worked in Israel:

Deuteronomy 22:19
And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver, and give them to the father of the damsel, because he has brought up an evil name on a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.

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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].