American Standard Version
"And the elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him; "
— Deuteronomy 22:18, American Standard Version
“And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him;”
“The elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him;”
“The elders of that city must then seize the man and punish him.”
“And the ancients of that city shall take that man, and beat him,”
“Then the responsible men of the town are to give the man his punishment;”
“And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him;”
then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel’s virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate;
and the damsel’s father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her;
and, lo, he hath laid shameful things to her charge, saying, I found not in thy daughter the tokens of virginity; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter’s virginity. And they shall spread the garment before the elders of the city.
And the elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him;
and they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.
But if this thing be true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the damsel;
then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the harlot in her father’s house: so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee.