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Deuteronomy 22:20–30

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20But if this accusation is true and no evidence of the young woman’s virginity is found, 21they will bring the woman to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city will stone her to death. For she has committed an outrage in Israel by being promiscuous while living in her father’s house. You must purge the evil from you.

22“If a man is discovered having sexual relations with another man’s wife, both the man who had sex with the woman and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel. 23If there is a young woman who is a virgin engaged to a man, and another man encounters her in the city and sleeps with her, 24take the two of them out to the gate of that city and stone them to death—the young woman because she did not cry out in the city and the man because he has violated his neighbor’s fiancée. You must purge the evil from you. 25But if the man encounters an engaged woman in the open country, and he seizes and rapes her, only the man who raped her must die. 26Do nothing to the young woman, because she is not guilty of an offense deserving death. This case is just like one in which a man attacks his neighbor and murders him. 27When he found her in the field, the engaged woman cried out, but there was no one to rescue her. 28If a man encounters a young woman, a virgin who is not engaged, takes hold of her and rapes her, and they are discovered, 29the man who raped her is to give the young woman’s father fifty silver shekels, and she will become his wife because he violated her.f He cannot divorce her as long as he lives.

30“A man is not to marry his father’s wife; he must not violate his father’s marriage bed.g

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Cross references

  1. fEx 22:16–17
  2. gLv 18:8; 20:10–11