JoeB131
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- Jul 11, 2011
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And voila. There it is.
"Most women are NOT virgins on their wedding nights. Back in bible times, that was enough to get you stoned to death. (One can only imagine how many girls were stoned to death because their hymens broke for other reasons.)"
And one wonders who did the checking? I'd guess this was a popular job back then.
Actually, the bible had a method for checking. If the girl did not have blood on her sheet on the wedding night, her husband could denounce her before the community and get her stoned.
On the other hand, if she did have an intact hymen, her parents (who would host the couple on their nupitals)
If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her, And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid: 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.... But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for 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 with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you. --Deuteronomy 22:13