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Deuteronomy 22:23

If there is a virgin pledged in marriage to a man, and another man encounters her in the city and sleeps with her,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Adultery;   Church;   Punishment;   Seduction;   Virgin;   Women;   The Topic Concordance - Execution;   Sexual Activities;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Marriage;   Woman;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Execution;   Fornication;   Marriage;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Divorce;   Marriage;   Punishment;   Sexuality, Human;   Woman;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Fornication;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Adultery;   Law;   Marriage;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Betrothal;   Capital Punishment;   Crimes and Punishments;   Sex, Biblical Teaching on;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Crimes and Punishments;   Deuteronomy;   Leviticus;   Marriage;   Virgin;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Adultery ;   Betrothal;   Birth of Christ;   Joseph (2);   Marriage;   Stoning (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Adultery;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Marriage;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Adultery;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Peculiarities of the Law of Moses;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Adultery;   Law in the Old Testament;   Marriage;   Punishments;   Seduce;   Virgin;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Capital Punishment;   Chastity;   Marriage;   Marriage Laws;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
If there is a young woman who is a virgin engaged to a man, and another man encounters her in the city and sleeps with her,
Hebrew Names Version
If there be a young lady who is a virgin pledged to be married to a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;
King James Version
If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;
Lexham English Bible
"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,
English Standard Version
"If there is a betrothed virgin, and a man meets her in the city and lies with her,
New Century Version
If a man meets a virgin in a city and has sexual relations with her, but she is engaged to another man,
New English Translation
If a virgin is engaged to a man and another man meets her in the city and has sexual relations with her,
Amplified Bible
"If a young woman who is a virgin is engaged (legally betrothed) to a man, and another man finds her in the city and is intimate with her,
New American Standard Bible
"If there is a girl who is a virgin betrothed to a man, and another man finds her in the city and sleeps with her,
Geneva Bible (1587)
If a maid be betrothed vnto an husband, & a man finde her in the towne & lye with her,
Legacy Standard Bible
"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,
Contemporary English Version
If a man is caught in town having sex with an engaged woman who isn't screaming for help, they both must be put to death. The man is guilty of having sex with a married woman. And the woman is guilty because she didn't call for help, even though she was inside a town and people were nearby. Take them both to the town gate and stone them to death. You must get rid of the evil they brought into your community.
Complete Jewish Bible
"If a girl who is a virgin is engaged to a man, and another man comes upon her in the town and has sexual relations with her;
Darby Translation
If a damsel, a virgin, be betrothed to some one, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her,
Easy-to-Read Version
"A man might meet a virgin girl engaged to another man. He might have sexual relations with her. If this happens in the city,
George Lamsa Translation
If there is a damsel who is a virgin and who is betrothed to a man, and another man find her in the city and lie with her;
Good News Translation
"Suppose a man is caught in a town having intercourse with a young woman who is engaged to someone else.
Literal Translation
If there is a girl that is a virgin, betrothed to a man, and a man finds her in the city, and lies with her,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yf a mayde be handfested to eny man, & another man getteth her in the cite, & lyeth with her,
American Standard Version
If there be a damsel that is a virgin betrothed unto a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;
Bible in Basic English
If a young virgin has given her word to be married to a man, and another man meeting her in the town, has connection with her;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
If a mayde be betrouthed vnto an husbande, and then a man finde her in the towne, and lye with her:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
If there be a damsel that is a virgin betrothed unto a man, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;
King James Version (1611)
If a damosell that is a virgin be betrothed vnto an husband, and a man find her in the citie, and lie with her:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And if there be a young damsel espoused to a man, and a man should have found her in the city and have lain with her;
English Revised Version
If there be a damsel that is a virgin betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
If a man spousith a damysel virgyn, and a man fyndith hir in the citee, and doith letcherie with hir,
Young's Literal Translation
`When there is a damsel, a virgin, betrothed to a man, and a man hath found her in a city, and lain with her;
Update Bible Version
If there is a damsel that is a virgin betrothed to a husband, and a man finds her in the city, and lies with her;
Webster's Bible Translation
If a damsel [that is] a virgin shall be betrothed to a husband, and a man shall find her in the city, and lie with her;
World English Bible
If there be a young lady who is a virgin pledged to be married to a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;
New King James Version
"If a young woman who is a virgin is betrothed to a husband, and a man finds her in the city and lies with her,
New Living Translation
"Suppose a man meets a young woman, a virgin who is engaged to be married, and he has sexual intercourse with her. If this happens within a town,
New Life Bible
"If a girl who has never had a man is promised in marriage to a man, another man might find her in the city and lie with her.
New Revised Standard
If there is a young woman, a virgin already engaged to be married, and a man meets her in the town and lies with her,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
When a damsel that is a virgin is betrothed to a husband, - and a man findeth her in the city, and lieth with her,
Douay-Rheims Bible
If a man have espoused a damsel that is a virgin, and some one find her in the city, and lie with her,
Revised Standard Version
"If there is a betrothed virgin, and a man meets her in the city and lies with her,
THE MESSAGE
If a man comes upon a virgin in town, a girl who is engaged to another man, and sleeps with her, take both of them to the town gate and stone them until they die—the girl because she didn't yell out for help in the town and the man because he raped her, violating the fiancée of his neighbor. You must purge the evil from among you.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"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,

Contextual Overview

13Suppose a man marries a woman, has relations with her, and comes to hate her, 14and then accuses her of shameful conduct and gives her a bad name, saying, "I married this woman and had relations with her, but I discovered she was not a virgin." 15Then the young woman's father and mother shall bring the proof of her virginity to the city elders at the gate 16and say to the elders, "I gave my daughter in marriage to this man, but he has come to hate her. 17And now he has accused her of shameful conduct, saying, 'I discovered your daughter was not a virgin.' But here is the proof of her virginity." And they shall spread out the cloth before the city elders. 18Then the elders of that city shall take the man and punish him. 19They are also to fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the young woman's father, because this man has given an Israelite virgin a bad name. And she shall remain his wife; he must not divorce her as long as he lives. 20If, however, this accusation is true, and no proof of the young woman's virginity is found, 21she shall be brought to the door of her father's house, and there the men of her city will stone her to death. For she has committed an outrage in Israel by being promiscuous in her father's house. You must purge the evil from among you. 22If a man is found lying with another man's wife, both the man who slept with her and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 20:7, Matthew 1:18, Matthew 1:19

Reciprocal: Leviticus 19:20 - she shall be scourged

Cross-References

Genesis 24:15
Before he had finished praying, Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah, the wife of Abraham's brother Nahor.
Genesis 24:24
She replied, "I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son that Milcah bore to Nahor."
Genesis 24:47
Then I asked her, 'Whose daughter are you?' She replied, 'The daughter of Bethuel son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to him.' So I put the ring on her nose and the bracelets on her wrists.
Genesis 24:51
Rebekah is here before you. Take her and go, and let her become the wife of your master's son, just as the LORD has decreed."
Genesis 24:60
And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, "Our sister, may you become the mother of thousands upon thousands. May your offspring possess the gates of their enemies."
Genesis 24:67
And Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah and took Rebekah as his wife. And Isaac loved her and was comforted after his mother's death.
Genesis 25:20
and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram and the sister of Laban the Aramean.
Genesis 28:2
"Go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of your mother's father Bethuel, and take a wife from among the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.
Genesis 28:5
So Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.
Romans 9:10
Not only that, but Rebecca's children were conceived by one man, our father Isaac.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband,.... But not married, not as yet brought home to her husband's house, and the marriage consummated; for the Jews distinguish between being betrothed or espoused, and married; and generally there was some time between the one and the other. And a wife was obtained in this way by three things; by money, which was the most usual; and by writing, which was to be done before witnesses, and with her consent; and by copulation, which, though valid, was not so much approved of a. There is a whole treatise in the Misnah, called Kiddushin, or Espousals, which largely treats of this matter:

and a man find her in the city, and lie with her; with her consent, as might be presumed by her not crying out, when, had she, she might have been heard, being in a city; and her being there also makes against her, since, being betrothed to a man, she ought to have abode in her father's house till her husband fetched her home, and not to have gadded abroad in the city, where she was exposed to temptation.

a Misn. Kiddushin, c. 1. sect. 1.


 
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