Deuteronomy 22:16
And the father shall say: I gave my daughter unto this man to wife: and because he hateth her,
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- et dicet pater : Filiam meam dedi huic uxorem : quam quia odit,
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐρεῖ ὁ πατὴρ τῆς παιδὸς τῇ γερουσίᾳ Τὴν θυγατέρα μου ταύτην δέδωκα τῷ ἀνθρώπῳ τούτῳ γυναῖκα, καὶ μισήσας αὐτὴν
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְאָמַ֛ר אֲבִ֥י הנער אֶל הַזְּקֵנִ֑ים אֶת בִּתִּ֗י נָתַ֜תִּי לָאִ֥ישׁ הַזֶּ֛ה לְאִשָּׁ֖ה וַיִּשְׂנָאֶֽהָ
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. …