Deuteronomy 22:18

Contemporary English Version

The town leaders will beat the man with a whip

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then the elders of that city will take the man and punish him.

Hebrew Names Version
The Zakenim of that city shall take the man and chastise him;

King James Version
And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him;

Lexham English Bible
Then the elders of that city shall take the man, and they shall discipline him.

English Standard Version
Then the elders of that city shall take the man and whip him,

New Century Version
and the elders must take the man and punish him.

New English Translation
The elders of that city must then seize the man and punish him.

Amplified Bible
"Then the elders of that city shall take the man and reprimand him,

New American Standard Bible
"Then the elders of that city shall take the man and rebuke him,

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then the Elders of the citie shal take that man and chastise him,

Legacy Standard Bible
So the elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him,

Complete Jewish Bible
The leaders of that town are to take the man, punish him,

Darby Translation
And the elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him;

Easy-to-Read Version
Then the leaders of that town must take that man and punish him.

George Lamsa Translation
And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him;

Good News Translation
Then the town leaders are to take the husband and beat him.

Literal Translation
And the elders of that city shall take that man and punish him.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
So shal the Elders of the cite take that man, and chastice him,

American Standard Version
And the elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him;

Bible in Basic English
Then the responsible men of the town are to give the man his punishment;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the elders of that citie shall take that man, and chastise hym,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him.

King James Version (1611)
And the Elders of that citie shall take that man, and chastise him.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the elders of that city shall take that man, and shall chastise him,

English Revised Version
And the elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him;

Berean Standard Bible
Then the elders of that city shall take the man and punish him.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
take the man, and schulen bete hym,

Young's Literal Translation
`And the elders of that city have taken the man, and chastise him,

Update Bible Version
And the elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him;

Webster's Bible Translation
And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him;

World English Bible
The elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him;

New King James Version
Then the elders of that city shall take that man and punish him;

New Living Translation
The elders must then take the man and punish him.

New Life Bible
Then the leaders of that city will take the man and punish him.

New Revised Standard
The elders of that town shall take the man and punish him;

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then shall the elders of that city take the man, and chastise him;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the ancients of that city shall take that man, and beat him,

Revised Standard Version
Then the elders of that city shall take the man and whip him;

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"So the elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him,

Contextual Overview

¹³ Moses said to Israel: Suppose a man starts hating his wife soon after they are married. ¹⁴ He might tell ugly lies about her, and say, "I married this woman, but when we slept together, I found out she wasn't a virgin." ¹⁵ If this happens, the bride's father and mother must go to the town gate to show the town leaders the proof that the woman was a virgin. ¹⁶ Her father will say, "I let my daughter marry this man, but he started hating her ¹⁷ and accusing her of not being a virgin. But he is wrong, because here is proof that she was a virgin!" Then the bride's parents will show them the bed sheet from the woman's wedding night. ¹⁸ The town leaders will beat the man with a whip ¹⁹ because he accused his bride of not being a virgin. He will have to pay her father one hundred pieces of silver and will never be allowed to divorce her. ²⁰ But if the man was right and there is no proof that his bride was a virgin, ²¹ the men of the town will take the woman to the door of her father's house and stone her to death. This woman brought evil into your community by sleeping with someone before she got married, and you must get rid of that evil by killing her. ²² Moses said: People of Israel, if a man is caught having sex with someone else's wife, you must put them both to death. That way, you will get rid of the evil they have done in Israel.

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Reciprocal: Exodus 21:22 - as the judges

Cross-References

Genesis 18:18
since his family will become a great and powerful nation that will be a blessing to all other nations on earth.

Genesis 22:1
Some years later God decided to test Abraham, so he spoke to him. Abraham answered, "Here I am, Lord ."

Genesis 22:3
So Abraham got up early the next morning and chopped wood for the fire. He put a saddle on his donkey and left with Isaac and two servants for the place where God had told him to go.

Genesis 22:4
Three days later Abraham looked off in the distance and saw the place.

Genesis 22:5
He told his servants, "Stay here with the donkey, while my son and I go over there to worship. We will come back."

Genesis 22:9
when they reached the place that God had told him about, Abraham built an altar and placed the wood on it. Next, he tied up his son and put him on the wood.

Genesis 22:10
He then took the knife and got ready to kill his son.

1 Samuel 2:30
I am the Lord , the God of Israel. I promised to always let your family serve me as priests, but now I tell you that I cannot do this any longer! I honor anyone who honors me, but I put a curse on anyone who hates me.

Psalms 72:17
May the glory of the king shine brightly forever like the sun in the sky. Let him make nations prosper and learn to praise him.

Jeremiah 7:23
Instead, I told them, "If you listen to me and do what I tell you, I will be your God, you will be my people, and all will go well for you."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the elders of that city shall take the man, and chastise him. Not with words, but blows. Jarchi interprets it of beating, and so does the Talmud x; and both the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan render it,

"shall beat him;''

that is, with the beating or scourging of forty stripes, save one.

x T. Bab. Cetubot, fol. 46. 1.