Neville Goddard on Deuteronomy 22:13-17 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Deuteronomy 22 in context

Scripture Focus

13If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,

14And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid:

15Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate:

16And the damsel's father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her;

17And, lo, he hath given occasions of speech against her, saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.

Deuteronomy 22:13-17

Biblical Context

Deuteronomy 22:13-17 describes a husband accusing a wife and her parents presenting tokens of virginity to the city elders, who then verify the claim. It frames a legal ritual around purity and reputation, while also echoing inner judgments about truth and state.

Neville's Inner Vision

In the Neville Goddard spirit, the entire scene is a drama of the mind. The 'husband' who speaks against the wife is the voice of limitation inside you, the belief that a part of you has lost its innocence or value. The 'damsel' is your own soul, and the tokens are the signs your imagination uses to prove a state to your memory. The elders of the city are your higher faculties—the conscience, the inner witness—that test every claim with the question: What state are you living from? When the father says he gave his daughter to this man, you are seeing identity handed over to an opinion, a social category, or a past verdict. The cloth spread before the elders becomes a symbolic record you project into awareness, and the verdict you fear arises from your sense of adequacy. The remedy is not to fight outward appearances but to revise the inner assumption: I am the I AM; my life now endorses a state of wholeness and purity, independent of appearances. Aligning with that inner truth opens the gate to a new reality that requires no external proof.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Close your eyes, place a hand on your chest, and declare: I AM that I AM, I am the state of purity now. Visualize the tokens lifting away and the inner elders nodding in quiet approval as you reaffirm your innate integrity.