Behold, he has accused her of shameful things, saying, ‘I didn’t find in your daughter the tokens of virginity;’ and yet these are the tokens of my daughter’s virginity.” They shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.
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Behold, he has accused her of shameful things, saying, ‘I didn’t find in your daughter the tokens of virginity;’ and yet these are the tokens of my daughter’s virginity.” They shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.
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And, lo, he hath given occasions of speech against her, saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter’s virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.
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and, lo, he hath laid wanton charges, saying: I found not in thy daughter the tokens of virginity; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity.' And they shall spread the garment before the elders of the city.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Meaning, the sheet, wherein the signs of her virginity…
Meaning, the sheet, wherein the signs of her virginity were.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Deu 22:17 And, lo, he hath given occasions of…
Deu 22:17 And, lo, he hath given occasions of speech [against her], saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these [are the tokens of] my daughter’s virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.
Ver. 17. These are the tokens.] Which in those countries seldom or never failed.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And the elders of that city shall take the…
And the elders of that city shall take the man, and chastise him. Not with words, but blows. Jarchi interprets it of beating, and so does the Talmud (x); and both the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan render it,"shall beat him;''
that is, with the beating or scourging of forty stripes, save one.
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(x) T. Bab. Cetubot, fol. 46. 1.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 17. They shall spread the cloth, c.] A…
Verse 17. They shall spread the cloth, c.] A usage of this kind argues a roughness of manners which would ill comport with the refinement of European ideas on so delicate a subject. Attempts have been made to show that the law here is to be understood metaphorically but they so perfectly fail to establish any thing like probability, that it would be wasting my own and my reader's time to detail them. A custom similar to that above is observed among the Mohammedans to the present day.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 17. to her charge] So Sam. LXX; omitted by…
17. to her charge] So Sam. LXX; omitted by Heb.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 22:17 The bed sheet (literally covering) might also have…
22:17 The bed sheet (literally covering) might also have been a garment of some kind, such as a nightgown.
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