Deuteronomy 22:20

Deuteronomy 22:20 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel:
• New International Version (NIV)If, however, the charge is true and no proof of the young woman’s virginity can be found,
• New King James Version (NKJV)“But if the thing is true, and evidences of virginity are not found for the young woman,
• New Living Translation (NLT)“But suppose the man’s accusations are true, and he can show that she was not a virgin.

Context of Deuteronomy 22:20

18Then the elders of that city shall take the man and whip him, 19and they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the father of the young woman, because he has brought a bad name upon a virgin of Israel. And she shall be his wife. He may not divorce her all his days. But if the thing is true, that evidence of virginity was not found in the young woman, 21then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done an outrageous thing in Israel by whoring in her father's house. So you shall purge the evil from your midst. 22"If a man is found lying with the wife of another man, both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman. So you shall purge the evil from Israel.

Deuteronomy 22:20 word by word

וְאִם־אֱמֶ֣ת הָיָ֔ה הַדָּבָ֖ר הַזֶּ֑ה לֹא־נִמְצְא֥וּ בְתוּלִ֖ים לַֽנַּעֲרָֽה׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• But if this thingדָּבָרdâbâr · word: thingH1697
• be trueאֱמֶת'emeth · truth: trueH571
• virginityבְּתוּלִיםbethûlîym · virginityH1331
• be not foundמָצָאmâtsâ' · to findH4672
• for the damselנַעֲרָהna‛ărâh · maidenH5291

Commentaries on Deuteronomy 22:20

• 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 22:20

• Adultery
• Church
• Government
• Husband
• Virgin

In the dictionaries

• Astray
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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