Deuteronomy 22:16

Modern English Version

The girl’s father must say to the elders, “I gave my daughter to this man to wife, and he has rejected her.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 22:13

If any man takes a wife and has sexual relations with her and then rejects her,

Deuteronomy 22:15

then the father and mother of the girl must produce evidence of the girl’s virginity to the elders of the city at the gate.

Deuteronomy 22:17

And behold, he has accused her of misconduct, saying, ‘I did not find your daughter to be a virgin.’ However, this is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity.” And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.