The fine was to be paid to the father, because the slander was principally against him as the head of the wife’s family. If the young woman was an …

Deuteronomy 22:13–30. LAWS OF CONJUGAL FIDELITY.

Virginity. —The law in these verses will be b…

And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver ,
&c.] Which was about twelve pounds of our money; this wa…

These and similar regulations might have been necessary then, and yet it is not necessary that we scrupulously examine them. The laws relate to the…