Neville Goddard on Deuteronomy 22:13-21 - 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.

18And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him;

19And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.

20But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel:

21Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.

Deuteronomy 22:13-21

Biblical Context

The passage sets a dispute over a wife's virginity and the elders' response. The outcome enforces accountability and consequences to preserve social and familial purity.

Neville's Inner Vision

Viewed through the I AM, this scene is not a mere code but a picture of your inner state. The husband who hates and accuses embodies a belief in lack or impurity arising within you; the 'tokens' and the elders symbolize your own signs of awareness, the outer checks you think will prove a truth already present in consciousness. When judgment falls as punishment—binding a partner or casting her out—you witness how a mind clings to a story to enforce separation. Yet the lesson is simple: change the assumption and the world rearranges itself. See the 'virginity' not as a physical token, but as the soul’s original, untainted nature; see the elders as the higher states of awareness that inspect your thoughts. If you demand an outer proof of purity, you generate fear and its penalties. If you revise to, 'I am the I AM, and all relationships arise from my wholeness,' the imagined consequences dissolve and harmony returns. The wife, the partner, the whole scene becomes a mirror of your inner love and integrity.

Practice This Now

Imitate the scene in imagination: sit quietly, declare 'I AM that I AM,' and revise any claim of lack by asserting your wholeness; breathe into the chest and feel the sense of unity between you and life.