^22:22If a man is caught having sexual relations with³⁸ a married woman³⁹ both the man who had relations with the woman and the woman herself must die; in this way you will purge⁴⁰ evil from Israel.

^22:23If a virgin is engaged to a man and another man meets⁴¹ her in the city and has sexual relations with⁴² her, ^22:24you 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 violated⁴³ his neighbor’s fiancée;⁴⁴ in this way you will purge⁴⁵ evil from among you. ^22:25But if the man came across⁴⁶ the engaged woman in the field and overpowered her and raped⁴⁷ her, then only the rapist⁴⁸ must die. ^22:26You 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 person⁴⁹ and murders him, ^22:27for the man⁵⁰ met her in the field and the engaged woman cried out, but there was no one to rescue her.

^22:28Suppose a man comes across a virgin who is not engaged and overpowers and rapes⁵¹ her and they are discovered. ^22:29The 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.

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Footnotes

38 Heb “lying with” (so , ), a Hebrew idiom for sexual relations.
39 Heb “a woman married to a husband.”
40 Heb “burn.” See note on the phrase “purge out” in .
41 Heb “finds.”
42 Heb “lies with.”
43 Heb “humbled.”
44 Heb “wife.”
45 Heb “burn.” See note on the phrase “purge out” in .
46 Heb “found,” also in vv. 27, 28.
47 Heb “lay with” here refers to a forced sexual relationship, as the accompanying verb “seized” (חָזַק, khazaq) makes clear.
48 Heb “the man who lay with her, only him.”
49 Heb “his neighbor.”
50 Heb “he”; the referent (the man who attacked the woman) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
51 Heb “lies with.”