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23 If a virgin is engaged to a man and another man meets[a] her in the city and goes to bed with[b] her, 24 you must bring the two of them to the gate of that city and stone them to death, the young woman because she did not cry out though in the city and the man because he violated[c] his neighbor’s fiancée;[d] in this way you will purge[e] evil from among you. 25 But if the man came across[f] the engaged woman in the field and overpowered her and raped[g] her, then only the rapist[h] must die.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 22:23 tn Heb “finds.”
  2. Deuteronomy 22:23 tn Heb “lies down with,” a euphemism for going to bed for sexual relations.
  3. Deuteronomy 22:24 tn Heb “humbled.”
  4. Deuteronomy 22:24 tn Heb “wife.”
  5. Deuteronomy 22:24 tn Heb “burn.” See note on the phrase “purge out” in Deut 21:21.
  6. Deuteronomy 22:25 tn Heb “found,” also in vv. 27, 28.
  7. Deuteronomy 22:25 tn Heb “lay with” here refers to a forced sexual relationship, as the accompanying verb “seized” (חָזַק, khazaq) makes clear.
  8. Deuteronomy 22:25 tn Heb “the man who lay with her, only him.”