Deuteronomy 22
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Deuteronomy 22:22-27

22“1If 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“2If there is a girl who is a virgin 3betrothed 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 4to 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 5rapes her, then only the man who 6raped 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, 7so is this case. 27When he found her in the field, the betrothed girl 8cried out, but there was no one to save her.

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Notes

  1. 1. Deuteronomy 22:22 Lev 20:10; Ezek 16:38; Matt 5:27, 28; John 8:5; 1 Cor 6:9; Heb 13:4 ↩
  2. 2. Deuteronomy 22:23 Lev 19:20-22; Matt 1:18, 19 ↩
  3. 3. Deuteronomy 22:23 A betrothed couple was considered legally married, but did not yet live together ↩
  4. 4. Deuteronomy 22:24 Lit with stones so that they die ↩
  5. 5. Deuteronomy 22:25 Lit lies down with ↩
  6. 6. Deuteronomy 22:25 Lit lies down with ↩
  7. 7. Deuteronomy 22:26 I.e., she is only a victim ↩
  8. 8. Deuteronomy 22:27 I.e., presumably did so ↩

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