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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
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” |
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