Deuteronomy 22:20

King James Version (KJV)

But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel:

Matthew Henry
Concise Bible Commentary

These and the like regulations might be needful then, and yet it is not necessary that we should curiously examine respecting them. The laws relate to the seventh commandment, laying a restraint upon fleshly lusts which war against the soul.

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Ellen G. White
Testimonies on Sexual Behavior, Adultery, and Divorce, 249.3

Those who anciently committed these sins were taken without the camp and stoned to death. Temporal and eternal death was their doom; and because the penalty of stoning to death is abolished, this sin is indulged in beyond measure and is thought to be a small offense.—Manuscript 3, 1854. TSB 249.3

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