Deuteronomy 22:18

THE MESSAGE

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;

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

¹³If a man marries a woman, sleeps with her, and then turns on her, calling her a slut, giving her a bad name, saying, "I married this woman, but when I slept with her I discovered she wasn't a virgin," then the father and mother of the girl are to take her with the proof of her virginity to the town leaders at the gate. The father is to tell the leaders, "I gave my daughter to this man as wife and he turned on her, rejecting her. And now he has slanderously accused her, claiming that she wasn't a virgin. But look at this, here is the proof of my daughter's virginity." And then he is to spread out her bloodstained wedding garment before the leaders for their examination. The town leaders then are to take the husband, whip him, fine him a hundred pieces of silver, and give it to the father of the girl. The man gave a virgin girl of Israel a bad name. He has to keep her as his wife and can never divorce her. ²⁰But if it turns out that the accusation is true and there is no evidence of the girl's virginity, the men of the town are to take her to the door of her father's house and stone her to death. She acted disgracefully in Israel. She lived like a whore while still in her parents' home. Purge the evil from among you. ²² If a man is found sleeping with another man's wife, both must die. Purge that evil from Israel. ²³If 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. ²⁵But if it was out in the country that the man found the engaged girl and grabbed and raped her, only the man is to die, the man who raped her. Don't do anything to the girl; she did nothing wrong. This is similar to the case of a man who comes across his neighbor out in the country and murders him; when the engaged girl yelled out for help, there was no one around to hear or help her. ²⁸When a man comes upon a virgin who has never been engaged and grabs and rapes her and they are found out, the man who raped her has to give her father fifty pieces of silver. He has to marry her because he took advantage of her. And he can never divorce her. ³⁰ A man may not marry his father's ex-wife—that would violate his father's rights.

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

Cross-References

Genesis 22:1
After all this, God tested Abraham. God said, "Abraham!" "Yes?" answered Abraham. "I'm listening."

Genesis 22:3
Abraham got up early in the morning and saddled his donkey. He took two of his young servants and his son Isaac. He had split wood for the burnt offering. He set out for the place God had directed him. On the third day he looked up and saw the place in the distance. Abraham told his two young servants, "Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I are going over there to worship; then we'll come back to you."

Genesis 22:8
Abraham said, "Son, God will see to it that there's a sheep for the burnt offering." And they kept on walking together.

Genesis 22:9
They arrived at the place to which God had directed him. Abraham built an altar. He laid out the wood. Then he tied up Isaac and laid him on the wood. Abraham reached out and took the knife to kill his son.

Ephesians 1:3
How blessed is God! And what a blessing he is! He's the Father of our Master, Jesus Christ, and takes us to the high places of blessing in him. Long before he laid down earth's foundations, he had us in mind, had settled on us as the focus of his love, to be made whole and holy by his love. Long, long ago he decided to adopt us into his family through Jesus Christ. (What pleasure he took in planning this!) He wanted us to enter into the celebration of his lavish gift-giving by the hand of his beloved Son.

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.