Bible and the Transgender Experience. Linda Herzer

give them to the young woman’s father, because this man has given an Israelite virgin a bad name. She shall continue to be his wife; he must not divorce her as long as he lives.

      ²⁰If, however, the charge is true and no proof of the young woman’s virginity can be found, ²¹she shall be brought to the door of her father’s house and there the men of her town shall stone her to death. She has done an outrageous thing in Israel by being promiscuous while still in her father’s house. You must purge the evil from among you.

      ²²If a man is found sleeping with another man’s wife, both the man who slept with her and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.

      Regarding the specific meanings of some of the key words in Deuteronomy 22:5 Theresa Scott writes on her website, Theresa’s Place-E,

      The word in this passage that is translated here as “clothing” is:

      keli OT:3627: used variously in the Bible to mean “vessel; receptacle; stuff; clothing; utensil; tool; instrument; ornament or jewelry; armor or weapon; male sex organ.”

      Keli appears about 320 times in the Bible and is only translated as clothing in this one passage, and there is no surrounding context which would indicate whether “clothing” is the correct translation…