Deuteronomy 22:14

New American Bible - revised edition

and accuses her of misconduct and slanders her by saying, “I married this woman, but when I approached her I did not find evidence of her virginity,”

Cross References

Exodus 20:16

You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

Exodus 23:1

You shall not repeat a false report. Do not join your hand with the wicked to be a witness supporting violence.

Proverbs 18:21

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who choose one shall eat its fruit.

Proverbs 18:8

The words of a talebearer are like dainty morsels: they sink into one’s inmost being.

Deuteronomy 22:13

If a man, after marrying a woman and having relations with her, comes to dislike her,

Deuteronomy 22:15

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

Deuteronomy 22:19

and fine him one hundred silver shekels, which they shall give to the young woman’s father, because the man slandered a virgin in Israel. She shall remain his wife, and he may not divorce her as long as he lives.

1 Timothy 5:14

So I would like younger widows to marry, have children, and manage a home, so as to give the adversary no pretext for maligning us.