¹⁵ If this happens, the girl’s father and mother can clear her name by providing evidence of her virginity to the elders in a legal proceeding at the city gate. ¹⁶ The girl’s father may tell the elders, “I gave my daughter to this man as his wife. But now he dislikes her ¹⁷ and has falsely accused her, telling me, ‘I found out your daughter wasn’t a virgin!’ But here is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity.” If the parents can provide the evidence by spreading out the cloth for the elders to see,