Deuteronomy 22
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Deuteronomy 22:20-30

20“But if this 12charge is true, and they did not find the girl to have evidence of virginity, 21then they shall bring the girl out to the doorway of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her 3to death, because she has 4committed a disgraceful sin in Israel by playing the prostitute in her father’s house; so 5you shall eliminate the evil from among you.

22“6If a man is found sleeping with a married woman, then both of them shall die, the man who slept with the woman, and the woman; so you shall eliminate the evil from Israel.

23“7If there is a girl who is a virgin 8betrothed to a man, and another man finds her in the city and sleeps with her, 24then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city and you shall stone them 9to death: the girl, because she did not cry out for help though she was in the city, and the man, because he has violated his neighbor’s wife. So you shall eliminate the evil from among you.

25“But if the man finds the girl who is betrothed in the field, and the man seizes her and 10rapes her, then only the man who 11raped her shall die. 26And you are not to do anything to the girl; there is no sin in the girl worthy of death, for just as a man rises against his neighbor and murders him, 12so is this case. 27When he found her in the field, the betrothed girl 13cried out, but there was no one to save her.

28“14If a man finds a girl who is a virgin, who is not betrothed, and he seizes her and has sexual relations with her, and they are discovered, 29then the man who had sexual relations with her shall give the girl’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall become his wife, because he has violated her; he is not allowed to divorce her all his days.

30“1516A man shall not take 17his father’s wife in marriage, so that he does not 18uncover his father’s garment.

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Notes

  1. 1. Deuteronomy 22:20 Lit matter ↩
  2. 2. Deuteronomy 22:20 Deut 17:4 ↩
  3. 3. Deuteronomy 22:21 Lit with stones so that she dies ↩
  4. 4. Deuteronomy 22:21 Gen 34:7; Lev 19:29; 21:9; Deut 23:17, 18; Judg 20:5-10; 2 Sam 13:12, 13 ↩
  5. 5. Deuteronomy 22:21 Deut 13:5; 17:7; 19:19 ↩
  6. 6. Deuteronomy 22:22 Lev 20:10; Ezek 16:38; Matt 5:27, 28; John 8:5; 1 Cor 6:9; Heb 13:4 ↩
  7. 7. Deuteronomy 22:23 Lev 19:20-22; Matt 1:18, 19 ↩
  8. 8. Deuteronomy 22:23 A betrothed couple was considered legally married, but did not yet live together ↩
  9. 9. Deuteronomy 22:24 Lit with stones so that they die ↩
  10. 10. Deuteronomy 22:25 Lit lies down with ↩
  11. 11. Deuteronomy 22:25 Lit lies down with ↩
  12. 12. Deuteronomy 22:26 I.e., she is only a victim ↩
  13. 13. Deuteronomy 22:27 I.e., presumably did so ↩
  14. 14. Deuteronomy 22:28 Ex 22:16 ↩
  15. 15. Deuteronomy 22:30 Ch 23:1 in Heb ↩
  16. 16. Deuteronomy 22:30 Lev 18:8; 20:11; Deut 27:20; 1 Cor 5:1 ↩
  17. 17. Deuteronomy 22:30 I.e., a stepmother, not his birth mother ↩
  18. 18. Deuteronomy 22:30 Idiom for violating his father’s marriage ↩

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