²⁰But if the things the husband said about his wife are true, and there is no proof that she was a virgin, ²¹the girl must be brought to the door of her father’s house. Then the men of the town must put her to death by throwing stones at her. She has done a disgraceful thing in Israel by having sexual relations before she was married. You must get rid of the evil among you.

²²If a man is found having sexual relations with another man’s wife, both the woman and the man who had sexual relations with her must die. Get rid of this evil from Israel.

²³If a man meets a virgin in a city and has sexual relations with her, but she is engaged to another man, ²⁴you must take both of them to the city gate and put them to death by throwing stones at them. Kill the girl, because she was in a city and did not scream for help. And kill the man for having sexual relations with another man’s wife. You must get rid of the evil among you.

²⁵But if a man meets an engaged girl out in the country and forces her to have sexual relations with him, only the man who had sexual relations with her must be put to death. ²⁶Don’t do anything to the girl, because she has not done a sin worthy of death. This is like the person who attacks and murders a neighbor; ²⁷the man found the engaged girl in the country and she screamed, but no one was there to save her.

²⁸If a man meets a virgin who is not engaged to be married and forces her to have sexual relations with him and people find out about it, ²⁹the man must pay the girl’s father about one and one-fourth pounds of silver. He must also marry the girl, because he has dishonored her, and he may never divorce her for as long as he lives.

³⁰A man must not marry his father’s wife; he must not dishonor his father in this way.

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