Deuteronomy 22:15
Her father and mother shall take her, and shall bring with them the tokens of her virginity to the ancients of the city that are in the gate:
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- tollent eam pater et mater ejus, et ferent secum signa virginitatis ejus ad seniores urbis qui in porta sunt :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ λαβὼν ὁ πατὴρ τῆς παιδὸς καὶ ἡ μήτηρ ἐξοίσουσιν τὰ παρθένια τῆς παιδὸς πρὸς τὴν γερουσίαν ἐπὶ τὴν πύλην,
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְלָקַ֛ח אֲבִ֥י הנער וְאִמָּ֑הּ וְהוֹצִ֜יאוּ אֶת בְּתוּלֵ֧י הנער אֶל זִקְנֵ֥י הָעִ֖יר הַשָּֽׁעְרָה
Haydock's commentary
Her. It does not appear that the woman was present at the trial: she remained at her father's, or rather at her husband's house, till sentence was passed. (Calmet)
Hebrew, "then shall the father of the damsel and her mother take and produce the damsel's virginity," or the tokens of it.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
Tertullian On the Veiling of Virgins, Chapter XI
But it is not so; but from the time when she begins to be self-conscious, and to awake to the sense of her own nature, and to emerge from the virgin ’s (sense), and to experience that novel (sensation) which belongs to the succeeding age. For withal the founders of the race, Adam and Eve, so long as they were without intelligence, went “naked;” but after they tasted of “the tree of recognition,” they were first sensible of nothing more than of their cause for shame. Thus they each marked their intelligence of their own sex by a covering. But even if it is “on account of the angels” that she is to be veiled, doubtless the age from which the law of the veil will come into operation will be that from which “the daughters of men” were able to invite concupiscence of their persons, and to experience marriage. …