13 " If any man takes a wife and goes in to her and then turns against her, 14 and charges her with shameful deeds and publicly defames e her, and says , 'I took this woman , but when I came near her, I did not find her a virgin ,' 15 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 . 16 "The girl's father shall say to the elders , 'I gave my daughter to this man for a wife , but he turned against her; 17 and behold , he has charged her with shameful deeds , saying , "I did not find your daughter a virgin ." But this is the evidence of my daughter's virginity .' And they shall spread the garment before the elders of the city . 18 "So the elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him, 19 and they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give it to the girl's father , because he publicly defamed e a virgin of Israel . And she shall remain his wife ; he cannot e divorce her all his days .
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Deuteronomy 22:13-19
Commentary on Deuteronomy 22:13-30
(Read Deuteronomy 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.