Deuteronomy 22:13–23:14

13 “If a man takes a woman and ⌊he has sex with her⌋,t but he then ⌊dislikes her⌋,u 14 and ⌊he accuses her falsely⌋,v and ⌊he defames her⌋,w and he says ‘This woman I took and I lay with her and ⌊I discovered that she was not a virgin⌋,’x 15 then in defense the father of the young woman shall take, along with her mother, and together they must bring out the evidence of the virginity of the young woman to display it to the elders of the city ⌊at the city gate⌋.y 16 And then the father of the young woman shall say to the elders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man as wife, but he now ⌊dislikes⌋z her, 17 and now look ⌊he has accused her falsely⌋,a saying, “I did not find ⌊your daughter a virgin⌋,”b but here is evidence of the virginity of my daughter’; and they shall spread the cloth out ⌊before⌋c the elders of the city. 18 Then the elders of that city shall take the man, and they shall discipline him. 19 Then they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver, and they shall give them to the father of the young woman, for ⌊he defamed an Israelite young woman⌋,d and ⌊she shall become his wife⌋;e he will not be allowed ⌊to divorce her⌋f all his days.

20 “But if ⌊this charge⌋g was true, ⌊and the signs of virginity were not found⌋h for the young woman, 21 and then they shall bring out the young woman to the doorway of the house of her father, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones, and she shall die, because she did a disgraceful thing in Israel ⌊by playing the harlot⌋i in the house of her father, and so you shall purge the evil from your midst.

22 “If a man is found lying ⌊with a married woman⌋,j then they shall both die; ⌊both of them⌋,k the man who lay with the woman and the woman also, so you shall purge the evil from Israel.

23 “If it happens that a young woman, a virgin, is engaged to a man, and a man finds her in the town and lies with her, 24 then you shall bring out ⌊both of them⌋l to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them with stones so that they shall die, the young woman because she did not cry out in the town, and the man becausem he violated his neighbor’s wife; and so you shall purge the evil from your midst.

25 “But if the man finds the young engaged woman in the field and the man overpowers her and ⌊he has sex with her⌋,n then the man onlyo must die who layp with her. 26 But you shall not do anythingq to the young woman, for there is not reckoned againstr the young woman ⌊a sin deserving death⌋;s ⌊it is similar to when⌋t a man rises up against his neighbor and murders him, ⌊a fellow human being⌋,u just so is this ⌊case⌋,v 27 for he found her in the field, the engaged young woman cried out, but there was now rescuer ⌊to help her⌋.x

28 “If a man finds a young woman, a virgin who is not engaged, and he seizes her and ⌊he has sex with her⌋y and they are caught, 29 then ⌊the man who lay with her⌋z shall give to the father of the young woman fifty shekels of silver, and she shall become ⌊his wife⌋a ⌊because⌋b he violated her, and he is not allowed to divorce her ⌊during his lifetime⌋.c 30d A man may not take the wife of his father, and so ⌊he may not dishonor his father⌋.e

23 “No man ⌊with crushed testicles⌋a or whose ⌊male organ is cut off⌋b may come into the assembly of Yahweh.

2 An illegitimate child may not come into the assembly of Yahweh; even to the tenth generation none ⌊of his descendants⌋c may come into the assembly of Yahweh.

3 An Ammonite or a Moabite may not come into the assembly of Yahweh; even to the tenth generation none ⌊of his descendants⌋d may come into the assembly of Yahweh ⌊forever⌋,e 4 ⌊because⌋f they did not come to meet you with food and with water ⌊when you came out of Egypt⌋,g and also ⌊because⌋h theyi hired Balaam, son of Beor, from Pethor, in Aram Naharaimj to act against you to curse you. 5 But Yahweh your God was not willing to listen to Balaam, and Yahweh your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because Yahweh your God loved you. 6 You shall not promote their welfare or their prosperity all your days ⌊forever⌋.k

7 “You shall not abhor an Edomite, because he is your brother; you shall not abhor an Egyptian because you were an alien in his land. 8 The childrenl that are born to them in the third generation may come ⌊representing them⌋m in the assembly of Yahweh.

9 “Ifn you go out to encamp against your enemies, then you shall guard against doing anything evil.

10 “If there is among you a man that is not clean because of a seminal emission ⌊during the night⌋,o he shall go outside the camp; he shall not come within the camp. 11 ⌊And then⌋p toward the ⌊coming⌋q of the evening, he shall bathe withr water, and at the going downs of the sun, he may come to the midst of the camp.

12 “And there shall be for you a designated place outside the camp; ⌊and you shall go there to relieve yourself⌋,t 13 and a digging toolu shall be included in addition to your other utensilsv for yourself; ⌊and then⌋w ⌊when you relieve yourself⌋x outside the camp you shall dig with it, and then you shall turn, and you shall cover your excrement. 14 For Yahweh your God is walking about in the midst of your camp to deliver you and ⌊to hand your enemies over to you before you⌋,y and so let your camp be holy, so that he shall not see in it ⌊anything indecent⌋,z and he shall turn away ⌊from going with you⌋.a

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t	Literally “and he goes unto her”
u	Literally “hates her”
v	Literally “he puts to her deeds of words”
w	Literally “he brings forth against her a bad name”
x	Literally “I found not with her virginity”
y	Literally “toward the city gate”
z	Literally “hates”
a	Literally “he put deeds of words”
b	Literally “to your daughter virginity”
c	Literally “to the face of”
d	Literally “for he brought out a bad name against the virgin of Israel”
e	Literally “and for him she shall become as wife”
f	Literally “to send her out”
g	Literally “the thing”
h	Literally “and they were not found evidence of virginity”
i	Literally “to play the harlot/to prostitute herself”
j	Literally “with a woman, a young woman of a husband”
k	Literally “also/even the two of them”
l	Literally “the two of them”
m	Literally “because of the fact that”
n	Literally “he lies down with her”
o	Or “alone”
p	Or “slept”
q	Hebrew “a thing”
r	Hebrew “to”
s	Literally “a sin of death”
t	Literally “for as that”
u	Literally “a soul/individual person”
v	Literally “thing/matter”
w	Hebrew “there was not”
x	Literally “for her”
y	Literally “he lies with her”
z	Literally “the man the one lying with her”
a	Literally “for/as a wife”
b	Literally “in place of”
c	Literally “all of his days”
d	Deuteronomy 22:30–23:25 in the English Bible is 23:1–26 in the Hebrew Bible
e	Literally “not he may reveal the skirt of the garment of his father”
a	Literally “bruised of crushing”
b	Literally “cut off of male organ”
c	Literally “to him”
d	Literally “to him”
e	Literally “until eternity”
f	Literally “because of the event when”
g	Literally “at your going out of Egypt”
h	Literally “because of the event when”
i	Hebrew “he,” but with plural meaning
j	Or “Mesopotamia” = “between the rivers”
k	Literally “until eternity”
l	Or “sons”
m	Literally “for them” or possibly “become members of”
n	Or “when”
o	Literally “of the night”
p	Literally “And it will happen/come about that”
q	Literally “turning”
r	Hebrew “in” but this is instrumental use of this preposition
s	The verb can mean “coming/going” and here it means “going”
t	Literally “and you shall go out there, outside to relieve yourself”
u	Or “spade”
v	Hebrew “utensil”
w	Literally “and it will happen”
x	Literally “at your sitting”
y	Literally “to give your enemies to the face of you”
z	Literally “nakedness of a thing”
a	Literally “from behind/after you”

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