Quotes about Virginity
The woman he marries must be a virgin.
- Leviticus 21:13
He is not to marry a widow, a divorced woman, or one defiled by prostitution. He is to marry a virgin from his own people,
- Leviticus 21:14
but spare for yourselves every girl who has never had relations with a man.
- Numbers 31:18
and 32,000 women who had not slept with a man.
- Numbers 31:35
and he then accuses her of shameful conduct and gives her a bad name, saying, “I married this woman and had relations with her, but I discovered she was not a virgin.”
- Deuteronomy 22:14
Then the young woman’s father and mother shall bring the proof of her virginity to the city elders at the gate
- Deuteronomy 22:15
And now he has accused her of shameful conduct, saying, ‘I discovered that your daughter was not a virgin.’ But here is the proof of her virginity.” And they shall spread out the cloth before the city elders.
- Deuteronomy 22:17
They are also to fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the young woman’s father, because this man has given a virgin of Israel a bad name. And she shall remain his wife; he must not divorce her as long as he lives.
- Deuteronomy 22:19
If, however, this accusation is true, and no proof of the young woman’s virginity can be found,
- Deuteronomy 22:20
She also said to her father, “Let me do this one thing: Let me wander for two months through the mountains with my friends and mourn my virginity.”
- Judges 11:37
“Go,” he said. And he sent her away for two months. So she left with her friends and mourned her virginity upon the mountains.
- Judges 11:38
After two months, she returned to her father, and he did to her as he had vowed. And she had never had relations with a man. So it has become a custom in Israel
- Judges 11:39