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Deuteronomy 22:23

If a virgin is engaged to a man and another man meets her in the city and has sexual relations with her,

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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,
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;
Berean Standard Bible
If there is a virgin pledged in marriage to a man, and another man encounters her in the city and sleeps 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

13 Suppose a man marries a woman, has sexual relations with her, and then rejects her, 14 accusing her of impropriety and defaming her reputation by saying, "I married this woman but when I had sexual relations with her I discovered she was not a virgin!" 15 Then the father and mother of the young woman must produce the evidence of virginity for the elders of the city at the gate. 16 The young woman's father must say to the elders, "I gave my daughter to this man and he has rejected her. 17 Moreover, he has raised accusations of impropriety by saying, ‘I discovered your daughter was not a virgin,' but this is the evidence of my daughter's virginity!" The cloth must then be spread out before the city's elders. 18 The elders of that city must then seize the man and punish him. 19 They will fine him one hundred shekels of silver and give them to the young woman's father, for the man who made the accusation ruined the reputation of an Israelite virgin. She will then become his wife and he may never divorce her as long as he lives. 20 But if the accusation is true and the young woman was not a virgin, 21 the men of her city must bring the young woman to the door of her father's house and stone her to death, for she has done a disgraceful thing in Israel by behaving like a prostitute while living in her father's house. In this way you will purge evil from among you. 22 If a man is caught having sexual relations with a married woman both the man who had relations with the woman and the woman herself must die; in this way you will purge 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, there came Rebekah with her water jug on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah (Milcah was the wife of Abraham's brother Nahor).
Genesis 24:24
She said to him, "I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom Milcah bore to Nahor.
Genesis 24:47
Then I asked her, ‘Whose daughter are you?' She replied, ‘The daughter of Bethuel the son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to Nahor.' I put the ring in her nose and the bracelets on her wrists.
Genesis 24:51
Rebekah stands here before you. Take her and go so that she may become the wife of your master's son, just as the Lord has decided."
Genesis 24:60
They blessed Rebekah with these words: "Our sister, may you become the mother of thousands of ten thousands! May your descendants possess the strongholds of their enemies."
Genesis 24:67
Then Isaac brought Rebekah into his mother Sarah's tent. He took her as his wife and loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.
Genesis 25:20
When Isaac was forty years old, he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram and sister of Laban the Aramean.
Genesis 28:2
Leave immediately for Paddan Aram! Go to the house of Bethuel, your mother's father, and find yourself a wife there, among the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.
Genesis 28:5
So Isaac sent Jacob on his way, and he went to Paddan Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean and brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.
Romans 9:10
Not only that, but when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our ancestor 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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