(May 24, 2015 at 12:02 am)Jenny A Wrote:(May 23, 2015 at 11:27 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: It was the custom for the father to take a piece of cloth and stick it up the girl's vagina. If it came out bloody she was a virgin. Evidently it was done just before the girl got married. The father then kept the bloody rag as evidence that the girl was a virgin, at least she was when he stuck the rag in her. The procedure is in the Bible.
Deuteronomy 22:17 = https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/De...my%2022:17
Hardly accurate. All sorts of things that are not penetration will rupture a hymen. I did it myself climbing on a jungle gym at seven or so. Scared both me and my Mom for rather different reasons. I thought I was internally injured. She thought I'd been raped. And you can get pregnant from a guy ejaculating outside the vagina without penetration.
And the Bible doesn't mention either Mary's Dad, or Joseph testing. Joseph apparently believes it because an angel told him so.
It is a Jewish fairy tale and the Bible says that a person shouldn't believe in them. But that was the established procedure that they all agreed to follow. It doesn't have to make logical sense in 2015 America.
