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A clean plain cloth lies spread on a low table before empty stone benches.
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Deuteronomy 22:17

Spread Out the Garment

Care for What Is Lost and Hear the Household Judgments · Deuteronomy 22

Story guide: The spread garment accompanies the parents’ answer to the slander before the elders.

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17and look, he has charged her with slanderous words, saying, “I did not find your daughter a virgin.” But these are the proofs of my daughter’s virginity. And they shall spread out the garment before the elders of the city.

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