²⁰ However, if the claim is true and proof of the young woman’s virginity can’t be produced, ²¹ then the city’s elders will bring the young woman to the door of her father’s house. The citizens of that city must stone her until she dies because she acted so sinfully in Israel by having extramarital sex while still in her father’s house.

Remove^[a] such evil from your community!

Inappropriate sexual behavior

²² If a man is found having sex with a woman who is married to someone else, both of them must die—the man who was having sex with the woman and the woman herself.

Remove such evil from Israel!

²³ If a young woman who is a virgin is engaged to one man and another man meets up with her in a town and has sex with her, ²⁴ you must bring both of them to the city gates there and stone them until they die—the young woman because she didn’t call for help in the city, and the man because of the fact that he humiliated his neighbor’s wife.

Remove such evil from your community!