Deuteronomy 22:19 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Bible Comments

The father — Because this was a reproach to his family, and to himself, as such a miscarriage of his daughter would have been ascribed to his evil education.

Deuteronomy 22:19

19 And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.