New English Translation
Deuteronomy 22:28
28Suppose a man comes across a virgin who is not engaged and overpowers and rapes her and they are discovered.
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,
- English Standard Version (ESV)"If a man meets a virgin who is not betrothed, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are found,
- 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,
Context of Deuteronomy 22:28
26You must not do anything to the young woman – she has done nothing deserving of death. This case is the same as when someone attacks another person and murders him, 27for the man met her in the field and the engaged woman cried out, but there was no one to rescue her. Suppose a man comes across a virgin who is not engaged and overpowers and rapes her and they are discovered. 29The man who has raped her must pay her father fifty shekels of silver and she must become his wife because he has violated her; he may never divorce her as long as he lives. 30(23:1) A man may not marry his father’s former wife and in this way dishonor his father.
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
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Deuteronomy 22:28
- Deuteronomy 22:19They will fine him one hundred shekels of silver and give them to the young woman’s father, for the man who made the accusation ruined the reputation of an Israelite virgin. She will then become his wife and he may never divorce her as long as he lives.
- Deuteronomy 21:14If you are not pleased with her, then you must let her go where she pleases. You cannot in any case sell her; you must not take advantage of her, since you have already 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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