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Deuteronomy 22:23–29

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 theml 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 whent 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 hery and they are caught, 29 then the man who lay with herz shall give to the father of the young woman fifty shekels of silver, and she shall become his wifea becauseb he violated her, and he is not allowed to divorce her during his lifetime.c

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