Deuteronomy 22:23

Deuteronomy 22:23 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;
• New International Version (NIV)If a man happens to meet in a town a virgin pledged to be married and he sleeps with her,
• English Standard Version (ESV)"If there is a betrothed virgin, and a man meets her in the city and lies with her,
• New King James Version (NKJV)“If a young woman who is a virgin is betrothed to a husband, and a man finds her in the city and lies with her,

Context of Deuteronomy 22:23

21she shall be brought to the door of her father’s house, and there the men of her city will stone her to death. For she has committed an outrage in Israel by being promiscuous in her father’s house. So you must purge the evil from among you. 22If a man is found lying with another man’s wife, both the man who slept with her and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel. If there is a virgin pledged in marriage to a man, and another man encounters her in the city and sleeps with her, 24you must take both of them out to the gate of that city and stone them to death—the young woman because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he has violated his neighbor’s wife. So you must purge the evil from among you. 25But if the man encounters a betrothed woman in the open country, and he overpowers her and lies with her, only the man who has done this must die.

Deuteronomy 22:23 word by word

כִּ֤י יִהְיֶה֙ נַעֲרָ֣ה בְתוּלָ֔ה מְאֹרָשָׂ֖ה לְאִ֑ישׁ וּמְצָאָ֥הּ אִ֛ישׁ בָּעִ֖יר וְשָׁכַ֥ב עִמָּֽהּ׃Read the interlinear

• Ifכִּיkîy · forH3588
• there isהָיָהhâyâh · to beH1961
• a virginנַעֲרָהna‛ărâh · maidenH5291
• a virginבְּתוּלָהbethûlâh · virginH1330
• pledged in marriageאָרַשׂ'âraώ · to betrothH781
• to a manאִישׁ'îysh · manH376
• encounters herמָצָאmâtsâ' · to findH4672
• in the cityעִיר‛îyr ‛âr ‛âyar · cityH5892
• and sleepsשָׁכַבshâkab · to lie down: have sexH7901
• with herעִם‛im · withH5973

Cross-references for Deuteronomy 22:23

• Deuteronomy 20:7Has any man become pledged to a woman and not married her? Let him return home, or he may die in battle and another man marry her.”
• Matthew 1:18This is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about: His mother Mary was pledged in marriage to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be with child through the Holy Spirit.

Commentaries on Deuteronomy 22:23

• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 13-30Verses 13-30 These and the like regulations might be needful then, and yet it is not necessary that we should curiously examine respecting them. The laws relate to the seventh commandment, laying a restraint upon fleshly lusts which war against the soul.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 13-3013-30. If a man take a wife, &c.--The regulations that follow might be imperatively needful in the then situation of the Israelites; and yet, it is not necessary that we should curiously and impertinently inquire into them. So far was it from being unworthy of God to leave such things upon record, that the enactments must heighten our admiration of His wisdom and goodness in the management of a people so perverse and so given to irregular passions. Nor is…Read the comment

Topics related to Deuteronomy 22:23

• Adultery
• Church
• Punishment
• Seduction
• Virgin
• Women

In the dictionaries

• Astray
• Chance
• Fornication
• Husband
• Rise
• Adultery
• Atonement, Day of
• Criticism
• Exodus, the Book of
• Genesis

Commentaries on Deuteronomy 22

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings