and say to the elders, “I gave my daughter in marriage to this man, but he has come to hate her.
These laws relate to the seventh commandment, laying a restraint by laying a penalty upon those fleshly lusts which war against the soul. I. If a man, lusting after another woman, to get rid of his wife slander her and falsely accuse her, as not having the virginity she pretended to when he married her, upon the disproof of his slander he must be punished, Deu 22:13-19.
Commenting on Deuteronomy 22:13-30
And, lo, he hath given occasion of speech against her,.... In the neighbourhood where they dwell; has been the cause of persons speaking reproachfully of her, as one of ill fame: saying, l found not thy daughter a maid; so that it seems he said this not only to his neighbours, and before a court of judicature, but to the parents of the damsel: and...
Deu 22:15-17 In such a case the parents of the young woman (הנּער for הנּערה, as in Gen 24:14, Gen 24:28, according to the earliest usage of the books of Moses, a virgin, then also a young woman, e.g., Rth 2:6; Rth 4:12) were to bring the matter before the elders of the town into the gate (the judicial forum; see Deu 21:19), and establish...
Commenting on Deuteronomy 22:15-17