SEV Biblia, Chapter 22:15
entonces el padre de la joven y su madre tomarán, y sacarán las señales de la virginidad de la doncella a los ancianos de la ciudad, en la puerta.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 22:15
Verse 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 the East. I have known several instances of persons having had two or three children at separate births before they were fourteen years of age. Such tokens, therefore, as the text speaks of, must be infallibly exhibited by females so very young on the consummation of their marriage.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 15. Then shall the father and the mother of the damsel take , etc.] Power from the court, according to the Targum of Jonathan; having leave and licence granted them to do what follows, these were to, and would, concern themselves in such an affair, partly for the credit and reputation of their child, and partly for their own honour, who were in danger, as Jarchi observes, of coming into contempt for their ill education of her: and bring forth the tokens of the damsel’s virginity ; the sheet she lay in when she first bedded with her husband, in her parents’ possession, and kept by them as a witness of her purity, should there ever be any occasion for it: and which were to be brought unto the elders of the city in the gate ; which sat in the gate of the city to try causes: the Targum of Jonathan calls it the gate of the sanhedrim, or court of judicature; and, according to Maimonides f367 , this court was the court of twenty three judges; for this was a capital crime accused of, a cause relating to life and death, which could not be heard and tried in a lesser court.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 13-30 - These and the like regulations might be needful then, and yet it is no necessary that we should curiously examine respecting them. The law relate to the seventh commandment, laying a restraint upon fleshl lusts which war against the soul __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ולקח 3947 אבי 1 הנער 5291 ואמה 517 והוציאו 3318 את 853 בתולי 1331 הנער 5291 אל 413 זקני 2205 העיר 5892 השׁערה׃ 8179
