Deuteronomy 22:28

The NET Bible®

Suppose a man comes across a virgin who is not engaged and overpowers and rapes her and they are discovered.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
If a man encounters a young woman, a virgin who is not engaged, takes hold of her and rapes her, and they are discovered,

Hebrew Names Version
If a man find a lady who is a virgin, who is not pledged to be married, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;

King James Version
If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;

Lexham English Bible
"If a man finds a young woman, a virgin who is not engaged, and he seizes her and he has sex with her and they are caught,

English Standard Version
"If a man meets a virgin who is not betrothed, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are found,

New Century Version
If a man meets a virgin who is not engaged to be married and forces her to have sexual relations with him and people find out about it,

Amplified Bible
"If a man finds a girl who is a virgin, who is not engaged, and seizes her and is intimate with her and they are discovered,

New American Standard Bible
"If a man finds a girl who is a virgin, who is not betrothed, and he seizes her and has sexual relations with her, and they are discovered,

Geneva Bible (1587)
If a man finde a mayde that is not betrothed, and take her, and lye with her, and they be founde,

Legacy Standard Bible
"If a man finds a girl who is a virgin, who is not engaged, and seizes her and lies with her and they are found,

Contemporary English Version
Suppose a woman isn't engaged to be married, and a man talks her into sleeping with him. If they are caught,

Complete Jewish Bible
"If a man comes upon a girl who is a virgin but who is not engaged, and he grabs her and has sexual relations with her, and they are caught in the act,

Darby Translation
If a man find a damsel, a virgin, who is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found,

Easy-to-Read Version
"A man might find a virgin girl who is not engaged and force her to have sexual relations with him. If other people see this happen,

George Lamsa Translation
If a man finds a damsel who is a virgin who is not betrothed, and seizes her, and lies with her, and they are found;

Good News Translation
"Suppose a man is caught raping a young woman who is not engaged.

Literal Translation
If a man finds a virgin girl, not being betrothed, and seizes her and lies with her, and they be found;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yf a man fynde a mayde that is not hadfested, and take her, and lye with her, and be founde,

American Standard Version
If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, that is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;

Bible in Basic English
If a man sees a young virgin, who has not given her word to be married to anyone, and he takes her by force and has connection with her, and discovery is made of it;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
If a man finde a mayde that is not betrouthed, and take her, and lye with her, and they be founde:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, that is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;

King James Version (1611)
If a man finde a damosel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And if any one should find a young virgin who has not been betrothed, and should force her and lie with her, and be found,

English Revised Version
If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;

Berean Standard Bible
If a man encounters a virgin who is not pledged in marriage, and he overpowers her and rapes her, and they are discovered,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
If a man fyndith a damysel virgyn that hath no spowse, and takith, and doith letcherie with hir, and the thing cometh to the doom,

Young's Literal Translation
`When a man findeth a damsel, a virgin who is not betrothed, and hath caught her, and lain with her, and they have been found,

Update Bible Version
If a man finds a damsel that is a virgin, that is not betrothed, and lays hold on her, and lies with her, and they are found;

Webster's Bible Translation
If a man shall find a damsel [that is] a virgin, who is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;

World English Bible
If a man find a lady who is a virgin, who is not pledged to be married, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;

New King James Version
"If a man finds a young woman who is a virgin, who is not betrothed, and he seizes her and lies with her, and they are found out,

New Living Translation
"Suppose a man has intercourse with a young woman who is a virgin but is not engaged to be married. If they are discovered,

New Life Bible
"If a man finds a girl who has never had a man and is not promised in marriage, and takes her and lies with her, and they are found,

New Revised Standard
If a man meets a virgin who is not engaged, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are caught in the act,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
When a man findeth a damsel that is a virgin who is not betrothed, and layeth hold of her and lieth with her, and they are found,

Douay-Rheims Bible
If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, who is not espoused, and taking her, lie with her, and the matter come to judgment:

Revised Standard Version
"If a man meets a virgin who is not betrothed, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are found,

THE MESSAGE
When 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.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"If a man finds a girl who is a virgin, who is not engaged, and seizes her and lies with her and they are discovered,

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

Exodus 22:16, Exodus 22:17

Reciprocal: Genesis 34:12 - dowry

Gill's Notes on the Bible

If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed,.... That is, meets with one in a field, which is not espoused to a man; and the man is supposed to be an unmarried man, as appears by what follows:

and lay hold on her, and lie with her, she yielding to it, and so is not expressive of a rape, as Deuteronomy 22:25 where a different word from this is there used; which signifies taking strong hold of her, and ravishing her by force; yet this, though owing to his first violent seizure of her, and so different from what was obtained by enticing words, professions of love, and promises of marriage, and the like, as in

Exodus 22:16 but not without her consent:

and they be found; in the field together, and in the fact; or however there are witnesses of it, or they themselves have confessed, it, and perhaps betrayed by her pregnancy.