Deuteronomy 22:20
But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel:
Deuteronomy 22:20 in other translations
| BSB | If, however, this accusation is true, and no proof of the young woman’s virginity can be found, |
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| WEB | But if this thing is true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the young lady, |
| ASV | But if this thing be true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the damsel; |
| YLT | ‘And if this thing hath been truth--tokens of virginity have not been found for the damsel-- |
| DARBY | But if this thing is true, and virginity hath not been found with the damsel; |
| BBE | But if what he has said is true, and she is seen to be not a virgin, |
| Webster | But if this thing shall be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel: |
What does Deuteronomy 22:20 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 22:13-30
13-30. If a man take a wife, &c.--The regulations that follow might be imperatively needful in the then situation of the Israelites; and yet, it is not necessary that we should curiously and impertinently inquire into them. So far was it from being unworthy of God to leave such things upon record, that the enactments must heighten our admiration of His wisdom and goodness in the management of a people so perverse…
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Deuteronomy 22:13-30
These and the like regulations might be needful then, and yet it is not necessary that we should curiously examine respecting them. The laws relate to the seventh commandment, laying a restraint upon fleshly lusts which war against the soul.
Deuteronomy 22:20 in the original Hebrew
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Context
- Deuteronomy 22:19
And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.
- Deuteronomy 22:20
But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel:
- Deuteronomy 22:21
Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father’s house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.
Deuteronomy 22:20 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Mas si este negocio fué verdad, que no se hubiere hallado virginidad en la moza, |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | – Mais si cette chose est vraie, si les signes de la virginité n’ont pas été trouvés chez la jeune femme, |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Wenn aber jene Sache Wahrheit gewesen ist, die Zeichen der Jungfrauschaft sind an dem jungen Weibe nicht gefunden worden, |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Quod si verum est quod objicit, et non est in puella inventa virginitas, |