What does Deuteronomy 22:15 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate:"
Verse Deuteronomy 22:15. TOKENS OF _THE DAMSEL'S VIRGINITY_] This was a perfectly possible case in all places where girls were married at ten, twelve, and fourteen years of age, which is frequent in t...
18. AGAINST INHUMANITY AND DIFFERENT VIOLATIONS, False Testimony and Sins of Adultery CHAPTER 22 _ 1. Laws against inhumanity (Deuteronomy 22:1)_ 2. Concerning false testimony (Deuteronomy 22:13)...
SINS AGAINST PURE MARRIAGES. Deuteronomy 22:14. tokens of virginity: their absence is now known not to be necessarily a proof of pre-nuptial unchastity, though the ancient peoples held the contrary,...
VIRGINITY. The Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Subject), App-6. explained by these words, "the tokens of"....
Charges against a Bride. He who, from a base motive, falsely accuses his wife of unchastity before marriage shall after solemn rebuke from the elders be fined 100 silver-pieces and have his right of d...
_VER._ 13-17. _IF ANY MAN TAKE A WIFE,_ &C.— The most probable arguments we can meet with, in support of the literal sense of this passage, amount to this; first, That the Jewish young women were marr...
k. SEX OFFENSES (Deuteronomy 22:13-30) (1) VIRGINITY OF A BRIDE (Deuteronomy 22:13-21) 13 If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her, 14 and lay shameful things to her charge, and bring...
_IF ANY MAN TAKE A WIFE, AND GO IN UNTO HER, AND HATE HER,_ If any man take a wife ... The regulations that follow might be imperatively needful in the then situation of the Israelites; and yet it is...
LAWS REGARDING LOST PROPERTY, DISTINCTION OF SEX IN APPAREL, AND CHASTITY 1-4. Law of Lost Property: see Exodus 23:4 and note....
DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD DEUTERONOMY _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 22 V1 ‘You may see that your neighbour’s *ox or sheep is loose. If you do, you must not avoid it...
Deuteronomy 22:13. LAWS OF CONJUGAL FIDELITY. (13-21) VIRGINITY. — The law in these verses will be best appreciated by considering its _effects._ The maidens in Israel would be compelled to guard thei...
וְ לָקַ֛ח אֲבִ֥י _הַֽ_†_נַּעֲרָ֖ה_† וְ אִמָּ֑הּ וְ הֹוצִ֜יאוּ אֶת ־בְּתוּלֵ֧י _הַֽ_†_נַּעֲרָ֛ה_† אֶל ־זִקְנֵ֥י...
LAWS OF PURITY (CHASTITY AND MARRIAGE) IN dealing with the ten commandments it has been already shown that, though these great statements of religious and moral truth were to some extent inadequate as...
Here we have the record of the laws conditioning life in love and neighborliness. Every man was enjoined to take care of his brother's lost things if he found them; and he was also to help the hurt an...
_Her. It does not appear that the woman was present at the trial: she remained at her father's, or rather at her husband's house, till sentence was passed. (Calmet) --- Hebrew, "then shall the father...
It is interesting to behold, how great provision the LORD was pleased to make, in order that the Israel of GOD, should be as distinguished among the unclean nations around them, as the LORD had distin...
It is clear that a new division of the statutes and judgments of this book begins with the later verses just read from Deuteronomy 16:1-22. What belonged to the religious life of Israel was closed wit...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 22, 23, 24, AND 25. Chapter 22 appears to contain ordinances to guard the people from want of benevolence and mercy, and of that which would offend the sensi...
THEN SHALL THE FATHER AND THE MOTHER OF THE DAMSEL TAKE,.... Power from the court, according to the Targum of Jonathan; having leave and licence granted them to do what follows, these were to, and wou...
Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth [the tokens of] the damsel's virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate: Ver. 15. _Then shall the father of the damsel...
1 Of humanitie toward brethren. 5 The sexe is to bee distinguished by apparell. 6 The dam is not to be taken with her yong ones. 8 The house must haue battlements. 9 Confusion is to be auoyded. 1...
VARIOUS SINS AGAINST THE SANCTITY OF HOLY WEDLOCK...
LAWS THAT TEST TRUE DISCERNMENT (vs.1-12) The laws in this section require a proper consideration of God's creation, whether of humans, animals, birds or even inanimate things. This involves our dis...
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...
i.e. The linen cloth or sheet, as is expressed, DEUTERONOMY 22:17, which in the first congress was infected with blood, as is natural and usual. But because this is not now constant, the enemies of Sc...
The portion of our book on which we now enter, though not calling for elaborate exposition, yet teaches us two very important practical lessons In the first place, many of the institutions and ordinan...
Deuteronomy 22:15 father H1 mother H517 woman H5291 take H3947 (H8804) out H3318 (H8689) womans H5291 virginity H1331 elders H2205 city H5892 gate H8179...
VARIOUS SEXUAL CRIMES (DEUTERONOMY 22:13). The Protection Of A Woman's Reputation (Deuteronomy 22:13). The rather sad message behind this regulation was that all parents should retain proof of thei...
CONTENTS: Law of brotherhood, separation, unchaste wives and husbands. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: Christianity teaches us to be neighborly and to be ready to do all good offices as we have...
Deuteronomy 22:5. _All that do so are abomination to the Lord._ The note of Maimonides here is, that men presenting themselves before Venus, appeared partially in female attire; and women presenting t...
DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 22:14 EVIDENCE OF VIRGINITY. This may be a garment stained with menstrual blood (v. Deuteronomy 22:17), which demonstrates that she is not pregnant, or a stain of hymen...
CRITICAL NOTES.—The cases stated and provided for in Deuteronomy 22:1 seem selected by way of example, and belong, according to our notions, rather to ethics than to law. It in noteworthy that no pena...
EXPOSITION REGULATIONS REGARDING CATTLE STRAYED OR THINGS LOST, THE APPAREL OF THE SEXES, THE TAKING OF BIRDS, AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF HOUSES. CONFUSIONS TO BE AVOIDED. FRINGES TO BE MADE ON VESTMENT...
Now in chapter twenty-two, now in those days they punished people for none involvement. If you saw your brother's ox or his sheep going astray, and you just try to ignore it: [you don't go out and get...
Deuteronomy 22:15...
Why is the method of testing chastity different here than in Numbers 5? PROBLEM: The Numbers text instructed that chastity be tested by drinking bitter water and seeing if the woman’s stomach would s...