Deuteronomy 22:19

amerce Or fine, also in E, Exodus 21:22. On the estimate of the silver shekel as = 2 sh. 9 d., this came to £13. 15 sh. It is paid to the father who had been responsible for his daughter's integrity (cp. Deuteronomy 22:16, I gave my daughter to this man) and whose family name had been damaged by the slanderer; but also the national name, cp. a virgin of Israel. By § 127 of Ḫammurabi the false accuser of anotherman's wife was branded.

and she shall be his wife Heb. emphatic; and to him shall she(continue to) be to wife. It is just that he should not be free of his obligations to her, for the motive of his slander had been to get rid of her. But for her it is rough justice. A woman could not divorce a man. By § 142 of Ḫammurabi, if a woman repudiated her husband her past was investigated, and if she had no vice but the husband had belittled her she took her marriage portion and went back to her father's house.