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Deuteronomy 22:20–30

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20If, however, the charge is trueb and no proof of the young woman’s virginity can be found, 21she shall be brought to the door of her father’s house and there the men of her town shall stone her to death. She has done an outrageous thingc in Israel by being promiscuous while still in her father’s house. You must purge the evil from among you.

22If a man is found sleeping with another man’s wife, both the man who sleptd with her and the woman must die.e You must purge the evil from Israel.

23If a man happens to meet in a town a virgin pledged to be married and he sleeps with her, 24you shall take both of them to the gate of that town and stone them to death—the young woman because she was in a town and did not scream for help, and the man because he violated another man’s wife. You must purge the evil from among you.f

25But if out in the country a man happens to meet a young woman pledged to be married and rapes her, only the man who has done this shall die. 26Do nothing to the woman; she has committed no sin deserving death. This case is like that of someone who attacks and murders a neighbor, 27for the man found the young woman out in the country, and though the betrothed woman screamed,g there was no one to rescue her.

28If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered,h 29he shall pay her father fifty shekelsc of silver. He must marry the young woman, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.

30A man is not to marry his father’s wife; he must not dishonor his father’s bed.di

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Footnotes

  1. cThat is, about 1 1/4 pounds or about 575 grams
  2. dIn Hebrew texts this verse (22:30) is numbered 23:1.

Cross references

  1. bDt 17:4
  2. cSee Ge 34:7; See 38:24; See Lev 19:29; Dt 23:17–18; 1 Co 5:13*
  3. d2 Sa 11:4
  4. eSee Ge 38:24; See Ex 21:12; Mt 5:27–28; Jn 8:5; 1 Co 6:9; Heb 13:4
  5. f1 Co 5:13*
  6. gSee Ge 39:14
  7. hEx 22:16
  8. iSee Ge 29:29; See Lev 18:8; See 20:9; 1 Co 5:1