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What does Deuteronomy 22:13 mean?

"If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, hates her,"

— Deuteronomy 22:13 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

10

You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.

11

You shall not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together.

12

You shall make yourselves fringes on the four corners of your cloak with which you cover yourself.

13

If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, hates her,

14

accuses her of shameful things, and gives her a bad name, and says, “I took this woman, and when I came near to her, I didn’t find in her the tokens of virginity”;

15

then the young lady’s father and mother shall take and bring the tokens of the young lady’s virginity to the elders of the city in the gate.

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The young lady’s father shall tell the elders, “I gave my daughter to this man as his wife, and he hates her.

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