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

21the men of her city must bring the young woman to the door of her father’s house and stone her to death, for she has done a disgraceful thing in Israel by behaving like a prostitute while living in her father’s house. In this way you will purge evil from among you. 22If a man is caught having sexual relations with a married woman both the man who had relations with the woman and the woman herself must die; in this way you will purge evil from Israel. If a virgin is engaged to a man and another man meets her in the city and has sexual relations with her, 24you must bring the two of them to the gate of that city and stone them to death, the young woman because she did not cry out though in the city and the man because he violated his neighbor’s fiancée; in this way you will purge evil from among you. 25But if the man came across the engaged woman in the field and overpowered her and raped her, then only the rapist must die.

Deuteronomy 22:23 word by word

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

Words taken from the KJV.

• If a damselנַעֲרָהna‛ărâh · maidenH5291
• a virginבְּתוּלָהbethûlâh · virginH1330
• be betrothedאָרַשׂ'âraώ · to betrothH781
• unto an husbandאִישׁ'îysh · manH376
• findמָצָאmâtsâ' · to findH4672
• her in the cityעִיר‛îyr ‛âr ‛âyar · cityH5892
• and lieשָׁכַבshâkab · to lie down: have sexH7901

Cross-references for Deuteronomy 22:23

• Deuteronomy 20:7Or who among you has become engaged to a woman but has not married her? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else marry her.”
• Matthew 1:18Now the birth of Jesus Christ happened this way. While his mother Mary was engaged to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be pregnant 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
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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