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The girl's father will say to the leaders, 'I let my daughter marry this man, but he hates her,
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so he has brought false charges that he didn't find evidence of her virginity; yet here is the evidence of my daughter's virginity'-(
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)and they will lay the cloth before the town leaders.
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The leaders of that town are to take the man, punish him, and fine him two-and-a-half pounds of silver shekels, which they will give to the girl's father, because he has publicly defamed a virgin of Isra'el. She will remain his wife, and he is forbidden from divorcing her as long as he lives.
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"But if the charge is substantiated that evidence for the girl's virginity could not be found;