16. The girl's father shall say to the elders, 'I gave my daughter to this man for a wife, but he turned against her;
17. and behold, he has charged her with shameful deeds, saying, "I did not find your daughter a virgin." But this is the evidence of my daughter's virginity.' And they shall spread the garment before the elders of the city.
18. So the elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him,
19. and they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give it to the girl's father, because he publicly defamed a virgin of Israel. And she shall remain his wife; he cannot divorce her all his days.
20. "But if this charge is true, that the girl was not found a virgin,