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Deuteronomy 22:15

in Deuteronomy 22

Then the young woman’s father and mother shall bring the proof of her virginity to the city elders at the gate

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

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;

KJV

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:

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This verse in Deuteronomy 22

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Tokens of the damsel’s virginity - This was a perfectly possible case in all places where girls were married at ten, twelve, and fourteen years of age, which is frequent in the East. I have known several instances of persons having had two or three children at separate births before they were fourteen years of age. Such tokens, therefore, as the text speaks of, must be infallibly exhibited by females so very young on the consummation of their marriage.

This site's exposition

If any man take a wife

on Deuteronomy 22:13-21

A husband who accuses his bride is answered by her parents bringing evidence to the elders in the gate, so the case is tried in public and the first burden falls on the accuser. If the charge fails he is chastised, fined a hundred shekels of silver, which is twice the fifty of verse 29, and he may never divorce her, so the woman is left provided for by the man who tried to be rid of her. If the charge holds the penalty is death, and the phrase used for the offence, wrought folly in Israel, is the one Genesis 34:7 used first and Judges 20:6 and 2 Samuel 13:12 use again.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Then shall the father and the mother of the damsel take,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

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.

The words behind it

12 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְלָקַ֛חand he will take

    velakachH3947 →966 times

  • אֲבִ֥י[the] father of

    ʾaviH1 →1212 times

  • הַֽנַּעֲרָ֖הthe young woman

    hanaarH5291 →63 times

  • וְאִמָּ֑הּand mother her

    veimahH517 →220 times

  • וְהוֹצִ֜יאוּand they will bring forth

    vehotziuH3318 →1067 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • בְּתוּלֵ֧י[the] virginiti<es> of

    betuleiH1331 →10 times

  • הַֽנַּעֲרָ֛הthe young woman

    hanaarH5291 →63 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • זִקְנֵ֥י[the] elders of

    zikneiH2205 →178 times

  • הָעִ֖ירthe city

    hairH5892 →1090 times

  • הַשָּֽׁעְרָה׃the gate towards

    hashaerahH8179 →374 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Where this verse is studied

On this page

Studies1

About Deuteronomy

Moses Comes Down from Mount Sinai, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Moses Comes Down from Mount Sinai, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Deuteronomy: the study guide →Read Deuteronomy 22 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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