“If a man is found sleeping with a woman who has a husband, both of them must die — the man who went to bed with the woman and the woman too. In this way you will expel such wickedness from Israel.  If a girl who is a virgin is engaged to a man, and […]

“But if the charge is substantiated that evidence for the girl’s virginity could not be found; then they are to lead the girl to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her town will stone her to death, because she has committed in Israel the disgraceful act of being a prostitute while […]

Today let’s talk about the marriage cloth that was to serve as the sure-fire evidence that a girl on her marriage night had never before slept with another man before becoming intimate with her husband. In Hebrew, this marriage cloth is called SIMLAH. In Hebrew culture, the first step towards marriage was that an arrangement […]

Before we continue our study of the latter half of Deuteronomy 22 dealing with a variety of human sexual relationships, we need to define a couple of important terms. Let’s first deal with the Biblical definition of “virgin” since it often appears in Scripture. In our day and age, the meaning of “virgin” is pretty […]

“If a man marries a woman, has sexual relations with her and then, having come to dislike her, brings false charges against her and defames her character by saying, ‘I married this woman, but when I had intercourse with her I did not find evidence that she was a virgin’; then the girl’s father and […]