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 . 20 "But if this charge is true , that the girl was not found a virgin , 21 then they shall bring out the girl to the doorway of her father's house , and the men of her city shall stone her to death because she has committed an act of folly in Israel by playing the harlot in her father's house ; thus you shall purge the evil from among you. 22 " If a man is found lying with a married e woman , then both e of them shall die , the man who lay with the woman , and the woman ; thus you shall purge the evil from Israel . 23 " If there is a girl who is a virgin engaged to a man , and another man finds her in the city and lies with her, 24 then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city and you shall stone them to death ; the girl , because e e she did not cry out in the city , and the man , because e e he has violated his neighbor's wife . Thus you shall purge the evil from among you. 25 "But if in the field the man finds the girl who is engaged , and the man forces her and lies with her, then only the man who lies with her shall die . 26 "But you shall do nothing e to the girl ; there is no sin in the girl worthy of death , for just as a man rises against his neighbor and murders him, so is this case . 27 "When he found her in the field , the engaged girl cried out, but there was no one to save her. 28 " If a man finds a girl who is a virgin , who is not engaged , and seizes her and lies with her and they are discovered , 29 then the man who lay with her shall give to the girl's father fifty shekels of silver , and she shall become his wife because e he has violated her; he cannot e divorce her all his days . 30 " A man shall not take his father's wife so that he will not uncover his father's skirt .
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Deuteronomy 22:13-30
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.