Deuteronomy 22:14 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

and accuses her of shameful conduct, and gives her a bad name, saying, “I married this woman and was intimate with her, but I didn’t find any evidence of her virginity,”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

and give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And charges her with shameful things and gives her an evil reputation, and says, I took this woman, but when I came to her, I did not find in her the tokens of a virgin,

American Standard Version (1901)

and lay shameful things to her charge, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came nigh to her, I found not in her the tokens of virginity;

Common English Bible

He then spreads false claims about her to the point that she has a bad reputation, because he said such things as, “I married this woman, but when I went to have sex with her, I couldn’t find any proof that she was a virgin.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

and so he seeks opportunities to dismiss her, imputing a very wicked name to her by saying, 'I received this woman as a wife, and upon entering to her, I found her not to be a virgin,'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And seek occasions to put her away, laying to her charge a very ill name, and say: I took this woman to wife, and going in to her, I found her not a virgin:

Deuteronomy 22:14 Cross References

Exodus 20:16

Do not give false testimony against your neighbour.

Exodus 23:1

‘You must not spread a false report. Do not join  the wicked to be a malicious witness.

Proverbs 18:21

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.

Proverbs 18:8

A gossip’s words are like delicacies that go down to one’s innermost being.  ,

Deuteronomy 22:13

‘If a man marries a woman, has sexual relations with her, and comes to hate her,

Deuteronomy 22:15

the young woman’s father and mother will take the evidence of her virginity and bring it to the city elders at the city gate.

Deuteronomy 22:19

They will also fine him a hundred silver shekels and give them to the young woman’s father, because that man gave an Israelite virgin a bad name. She will remain his wife; he cannot divorce her as long as he lives.

1 Timothy 5:14

Therefore, I want younger women to marry,  have children, manage their households, and give the adversary no opportunity to accuse us.