Deuteronomy 22:18
Good News Translation
Then the town leaders are to take the husband and beat him.

New Revised Standard Version
The elders of that town shall take the man and punish him;

Contemporary English Version
The town leaders will beat the man with a whip

New American Bible
Then these city elders shall take the man and discipline him,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the ancients of that city shall take that man, and beat him,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the ancients of that city shall take that man, and beat him,

Context
Marriage Violations
17He layeth to her charge a very ill name, so as to say: I found not thy daughter a virgin: and behold these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the ancients of the city: 18And the ancients of that city shall take that man, and beat him,19Condemning him besides in a hundred sicles of silver, which he shall give to the damsel's father, because he hath defamed by a very ill name a virgin of Israel: and he shall have her to wife, and may not put her away all the days of his life.…
Cross References
Exodus 18:21
And provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, in whom there is truth, and that hate avarice, and appoint of them rulers of thousands, and of hundreds, and of fifties, and of tens,

Exodus 21:22
If men quarrel, and one strike a woman with child and she miscarry indeed, but live herself: he shall be answerable for so much damage as the woman's husband shall require, and as arbiters shall award.

Deuteronomy 1:9
And I said to you at that time:

Deuteronomy 22:17
He layeth to her charge a very ill name, so as to say: I found not thy daughter a virgin: and behold these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the ancients of the city:

Deuteronomy 22:19
Condemning him besides in a hundred sicles of silver, which he shall give to the damsel's father, because he hath defamed by a very ill name a virgin of Israel: and he shall have her to wife, and may not put her away all the days of his life.

Deuteronomy 22:17
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