Deuteronomy 22:13-30
Lexham English Bible
13 “If a man takes a woman and he has sex with her,[a] but he then dislikes her,[b] 14 and he accuses her falsely,[c] and he defames her,[d] and he says ‘This woman I took and I lay with her and I discovered that she was not a virgin,’[e] 15 then in defense the father of the young woman shall take, along with her mother, and together they must bring out the evidence of the virginity of the young woman to display it to the elders of the city at the city gate.[f] 16 And then the father of the young woman shall say to the elders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man as wife, but he now dislikes[g] her, 17 and now look he has accused her falsely,[h] saying, “I did not find your daughter a virgin,”[i] but here is evidence of the virginity of my daughter’; and they shall spread the cloth out before[j] the elders of the city. 18 Then the elders of that city shall take the man, and they shall discipline him. 19 Then they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver, and they shall give them to the father of the young woman, for he defamed an Israelite young woman,[k] and she shall become his wife;[l] he will not be allowed to divorce her[m] all his days.
20 “But if this charge[n] was true, and the signs of virginity were not found[o] for the young woman, 21 and then they shall bring out the young woman to the doorway of the house of her father, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones, and she shall die, because she did a disgraceful thing in Israel by playing the harlot[p] in the house of her father, and so you shall purge the evil from your midst.
22 “If a man is found lying with a married woman,[q] then they shall both die; both of them,[r] the man who lay with the woman and the woman also, so you shall purge the evil from Israel.
23 “If it happens that a young woman, a virgin, is engaged to a man, and a man finds her in the town and lies with her, 24 then you shall bring out both of them[s] to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them with stones so that they shall die, the young woman because she did not cry out in the town, and the man because[t] he violated his neighbor’s wife; and so you shall purge the evil from your midst.
25 “But if the man finds the young engaged woman in the field and the man overpowers her and he has sex with her,[u] then the man only[v] must die who lay[w] with her. 26 But you shall not do anything[x] to the young woman, for there is not reckoned against[y] the young woman a sin deserving death;[z] it is similar to when[aa] a man rises up against his neighbor and murders him, a fellow human being,[ab] just so is this case,[ac] 27 for he found her in the field, the engaged young woman cried out, but there was no[ad] rescuer to help her.[ae]
28 “If a man finds a young woman, a virgin who is not engaged, and he seizes her and he has sex with her[af] and they are caught, 29 then the man who lay with her[ag] shall give to the father of the young woman fifty shekels of silver, and she shall become his wife[ah] because[ai] he violated her, and he is not allowed to divorce her during his lifetime.[aj] 30 [ak] A man may not take the wife of his father, and so he may not dishonor his father.[al]
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- Deuteronomy 22:13 Literally “and he goes unto her”
- Deuteronomy 22:13 Literally “hates her”
- Deuteronomy 22:14 Literally “he puts to her deeds of words”
- Deuteronomy 22:14 Literally “he brings forth against her a bad name”
- Deuteronomy 22:14 Literally “I found not with her virginity”
- Deuteronomy 22:15 Literally “toward the city gate”
- Deuteronomy 22:16 Literally “hates”
- Deuteronomy 22:17 Literally “he put deeds of words”
- Deuteronomy 22:17 Literally “to your daughter virginity”
- Deuteronomy 22:17 Literally “to the face of”
- Deuteronomy 22:19 Literally “for he brought out a bad name against the virgin of Israel”
- Deuteronomy 22:19 Literally “and for him she shall become as wife”
- Deuteronomy 22:19 Literally “to send her out”
- Deuteronomy 22:20 Literally “the thing”
- Deuteronomy 22:20 Literally “and they were not found evidence of virginity”
- Deuteronomy 22:21 Literally “to play the harlot/to prostitute herself”
- Deuteronomy 22:22 Literally “with a woman, a young woman of a husband”
- Deuteronomy 22:22 Literally “also/even the two of them”
- Deuteronomy 22:24 Literally “the two of them”
- Deuteronomy 22:24 Literally “because of the fact that”
- Deuteronomy 22:25 Literally “he lies down with her”
- Deuteronomy 22:25 Or “alone”
- Deuteronomy 22:25 Or “slept”
- Deuteronomy 22:26 Hebrew “a thing”
- Deuteronomy 22:26 Hebrew “to”
- Deuteronomy 22:26 Literally “a sin of death”
- Deuteronomy 22:26 Literally “for as that”
- Deuteronomy 22:26 Literally “a soul/individual person”
- Deuteronomy 22:26 Literally “thing/matter”
- Deuteronomy 22:27 Hebrew “there was not”
- Deuteronomy 22:27 Literally “for her”
- Deuteronomy 22:28 Literally “he lies with her”
- Deuteronomy 22:29 Literally “the man the one lying with her”
- Deuteronomy 22:29 Literally “for/as a wife”
- Deuteronomy 22:29 Literally “in place of”
- Deuteronomy 22:29 Literally “all of his days”
- Deuteronomy 22:30 Deuteronomy 22:30–23:25 in the English Bible is 23:1–26 in the Hebrew Bible
- Deuteronomy 22:30 Literally “not he may reveal the skirt of the garment of his father”
Deuteronomy 22:13-30
New American Standard Bible
Laws on Morality
13 “(A)If any man takes a wife and goes in to her and then [a]turns against her, 14 and he charges her with shameful behavior and [b]publicly defames her, and says, ‘I took this woman, but when I came near her, I did not find her to have evidence of virginity,’ 15 then the girl’s father and her mother shall take and bring out the evidence of the girl’s virginity to the elders of the city at the gate. 16 And the girl’s father shall say to the elders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man as a wife, but he [c]turned against her; 17 and behold, he has charged her with shameful behavior, saying, “I did not find your daughter to have evidence of virginity.” But [d]this is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity.’ And they shall spread out the garment before the elders of the city. 18 Then (B)the elders of that city shall take the man and rebuke him, 19 and they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give it to the girl’s father, because he [e]publicly defamed a virgin of Israel. And she shall remain his wife; he is not allowed to [f]divorce her all his days.
20 “But if this [g](C)charge is true, and they did not find the girl to have evidence of virginity, 21 then they shall bring the girl out to the doorway of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her [h]to death, because she has (D)committed a disgraceful sin in Israel by playing the prostitute in her father’s house; so (E)you shall eliminate the evil from among you.
22 “(F)If a man is found sleeping with a married woman, then both of them shall die, the man who slept with the woman, and the woman; so you shall eliminate the evil from Israel.
23 “(G)If there is a girl who is a virgin [i]betrothed to a man, and another man finds her in the city and sleeps with her, 24 then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city and you shall stone them [j]to death: the girl, because she did not cry out for help though she was in the city, and the man, because he has violated his neighbor’s wife. So you shall eliminate the evil from among you.
25 “But if the man finds the girl who is betrothed in the field, and the man seizes her and [k]rapes her, then only the man who [l]raped her shall die. 26 And you are not to do anything to the girl; there is no sin in the girl worthy of death, for just as a man rises against his neighbor and murders him, [m]so is this case. 27 When he found her in the field, the betrothed girl [n]cried out, but there was no one to save her.
28 “(H)If a man finds a girl who is a virgin, who is not betrothed, and he seizes her and has sexual relations with her, and they are discovered, 29 then the man who had sexual relations with her shall give the girl’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall become his wife, because he has violated her; he is not allowed to divorce her all his days.
30 “[o](I)A man shall not take [p]his father’s wife in marriage, so that he does not [q]uncover his father’s garment.
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- Deuteronomy 22:13 Lit hates her
- Deuteronomy 22:14 Lit brings out an evil reputation against her
- Deuteronomy 22:16 Lit hated her
- Deuteronomy 22:17 Lit these are
- Deuteronomy 22:19 Lit brought out an evil reputation against a virgin
- Deuteronomy 22:19 Lit send her away
- Deuteronomy 22:20 Lit matter
- Deuteronomy 22:21 Lit with stones so that she dies
- Deuteronomy 22:23 A betrothed couple was considered legally married, but did not yet live together
- Deuteronomy 22:24 Lit with stones so that they die
- Deuteronomy 22:25 Lit lies down with
- Deuteronomy 22:25 Lit lies down with
- Deuteronomy 22:26 I.e., she is only a victim
- Deuteronomy 22:27 I.e., presumably did so
- Deuteronomy 22:30 Ch 23:1 in Heb
- Deuteronomy 22:30 I.e., a stepmother, not his birth mother
- Deuteronomy 22:30 Idiom for violating his father’s marriage
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