20 “But if this [a](A)charge is true, that the girl was not found a virgin, 21 then they shall bring out the girl to the doorway of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her [b]to death because she has (B)committed an act of folly in Israel by playing the harlot in her father’s house; thus (C)you shall purge the evil from among you.

22 (D)If a man is found lying with a married woman, then both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman; thus you shall purge the evil from Israel.

23 (E)If there is a girl who is a virgin engaged to a man, and another man finds her in the city and lies with her, 24 then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city and you shall stone them [c]to death; the girl, because she did not cry out in the city, and the man, because he has violated his neighbor’s wife. Thus you shall purge the evil from among you.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 22:20 Lit matter
  2. Deuteronomy 22:21 Lit with stones so that she dies
  3. Deuteronomy 22:24 Lit with stones so that they die

Law of Divorce

24 “When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens [a]that she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some (A)indecency in her, and (B)he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out from his house, and she leaves his house and goes and becomes another man’s wife, and if the latter husband [b]turns against her and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter husband dies who took her to be his wife, then her (C)former husband who sent her away is not allowed to take her again to be his wife, since she has been defiled; for that is an abomination before the Lord, and you shall not bring sin on the land which the Lord your God gives you as an inheritance.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 24:1 Lit if
  2. Deuteronomy 24:3 Lit hates her

they *said to Him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in adultery, in the very act. Now in the Law (A)Moses commanded us to stone such women; what then do You say?”

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