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“‘The daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by playing the prostitute, she profanes her father. She shall be burned with fire.
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Verse 9. Fire. Provided she be betrothed, and still in her father’s house; so that the infamy fall upon him. Jonathan.—For if she be with her husband, she must undergo the usual punishment of stoning. Other young women received no corporal punishment for simple fornication: the man was bound to marry them, if the father consented; and, at any rate, he was forced to give them a dowry. Exodus 22:16. Calmet.—But if the woman pretended falsely that they were virgins, they were stoned. Deuteronomy 22:20.
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