English Standard Version
Deuteronomy 22:28
28"If a man meets a virgin who is not betrothed, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are found,
Deuteronomy 22:28 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;
- New International Version (NIV)If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered,
- New King James Version (NKJV)“If a man finds a young woman who is a virgin, who is not betrothed, and he seizes her and lies with her, and they are found out,
- New Living Translation (NLT)“Suppose a man has intercourse with a young woman who is a virgin but is not engaged to be married. If they are discovered,
Context of Deuteronomy 22:28
26But you shall do nothing to the young woman; she has committed no offense punishable by death. For this case is like that of a man attacking and murdering his neighbor, 27because he met her in the open country, and though the betrothed young woman cried for help there was no one to rescue her. "If a man meets a virgin who is not betrothed, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are found, 29then the man who lay with her shall give to the father of the young woman fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has violated her. He may not divorce her all his days. 30"A man shall not take his father's wife, so that he does not uncover his father's nakedness.
Read all of Deuteronomy 22Deuteronomy 22:28 word by word
כִּֽי־יִמְצָ֣א אִ֗ישׁ נַעֲרָ֤ה בְתוּלָה֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר לֹא־אֹרָ֔שָׂה וּתְפָשָׂ֖הּ וְשָׁכַ֣ב עִמָּ֑הּ וְנִמְצָֽאוּ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Deuteronomy 22:28
- Deuteronomy 22:19and 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.
- Deuteronomy 21:14But if you no longer delight in her, you shall let her go where she wants. But you shall not sell her for money, nor shall you treat her as a slave, since you have humiliated her.
Commentaries on Deuteronomy 22:28
- 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
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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
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