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20 If a man has sex with a slave woman who is promised in marriage to someone else, he must pay a fine, but they are not to be put to death. After all, she was still a slave at the time.[a]

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  1. 19.20 time: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 20.

20 “‘If a man sleeps with a female slave who is promised to another man(A) but who has not been ransomed or given her freedom, there must be due punishment.[a] Yet they are not to be put to death, because she had not been freed.

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  1. Leviticus 19:20 Or be an inquiry