Deuteronomy - 22:17 Meaning
“And, lo, he hath given occasions of speech against her, saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.”
King James Version (KJV)
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary
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.
“Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily.”
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