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Deuteronomy 22:17-21

Deuteronomy 22:17

and behold, he has charged her with shameful behavior, saying, “I did not find your daughter to have evidence of virginity.” But this is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity.’ And they shall spread out the garment before the elders of the city.

Deuteronomy 22:18

Then the elders of that city shall take the man and rebuke him,

Deuteronomy 22:19

and they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give it to the girl’s father, because he publicly defamed a virgin of Israel. And she shall remain his wife; he is not allowed to divorce her all his days.

Deuteronomy 22:20

“But if this charge is true, and they did not find the girl to have evidence of virginity,

Deuteronomy 22:21

then they shall bring the girl out to the doorway of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death, because she has committed a disgraceful sin in Israel by playing the prostitute in her father’s house; so you shall eliminate the evil from among you.