Deuteronomy 22:18

Good News Translation

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

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,

Contemporary English Version
The town leaders will beat the man with a whip

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;

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 "Suppose a man marries a young woman and later he decides he doesn't want her. ¹⁴ So he makes up false charges against her, accusing her of not being a virgin when they got married. ¹⁵ "If this happens, the young woman's parents are to take the blood-stained wedding sheet that proves she was a virgin, and they are to show it in court to the town leaders. ¹⁶ Her father will say to them, ‘I gave my daughter to this man in marriage, and now he doesn't want her. ¹⁷ He has made false charges against her, saying that she was not a virgin when he married her. But here is the proof that my daughter was a virgin; look at the bloodstains on the wedding sheet!' ¹⁸ Then the town leaders are to take the husband and beat him. ¹⁹ They are also to fine him a hundred pieces of silver and give the money to the young woman's father, because the man has brought disgrace on an Israelite woman. Moreover, she will continue to be his wife, and he can never divorce her as long as he lives. ²⁰ "But if the charge is true and there is no proof that she was a virgin, ²¹ then they are to take her out to the entrance of her father's house, where the men of her city are to stone her to death. She has done a shameful thing among our people by having intercourse before she was married, while she was still living in her father's house. In this way you will get rid of this evil. ²² "If a man is caught having intercourse with another man's wife, both of them are to be put to death. In this way you will get rid of this evil.

Bible Verse Review
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Reciprocal: Exodus 21:22 - as the judges

Cross-References

Genesis 18:18
His descendants will become a great and mighty nation, and through him I will bless all the nations.

Genesis 22:1
Some time later God tested Abraham; he called to him, "Abraham!" And Abraham answered, "Yes, here I am!"

Genesis 22:3
Early the next morning Abraham cut some wood for the sacrifice, loaded his donkey, and took Isaac and two servants with him. They started out for the place that God had told him about.

Genesis 22:4
On the third day Abraham saw the place in the distance.

Genesis 22:5
Then he said to the servants, "Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go over there and worship, and then we will come back to you."

Genesis 22:8
Abraham answered, "God himself will provide one." And the two of them walked on together.

Genesis 22:9
When they came to the place which God had told him about, Abraham built an altar and arranged the wood on it. He tied up his son and placed him on the altar, on top of the wood.

Genesis 22:10
Then he picked up the knife to kill him.

1 Samuel 2:30
I, the Lord God of Israel, promised in the past that your family and your clan would serve me as priests for all time. But now I say that I won't have it any longer! Instead, I will honor those who honor me, and I will treat with contempt those who despise me.

Psalms 72:17
May the king's name never be forgotten; may his fame last as long as the sun. May all nations ask God to bless them as he has blessed the king.

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.