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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

Deuteronomy 22:23

When a damsel that is a virgin is betrothed to a husband, - and a man findeth her in the city, and lieth with her,

Bible Study Resources

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

English Standard Version
"If there is a betrothed virgin, and a man meets her in the city and lies 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;
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;
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,
New English Translation
If a virgin is engaged to a man and another man meets her in the city and has sexual relations 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;
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,
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;
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,
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.
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:
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,
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:
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,
Geneva Bible (1587)
If a maid be betrothed vnto an husband, & a man finde her in the towne & lye with her,
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.
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,
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;
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,
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,
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
"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,
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 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,
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,

Contextual Overview

13 When a man taketh a wife, - and goeth in unto her and hateth her; 14 and raiseth against her occasions of speech, and bringeth upon her an evil name, and saith - This woman, I took, and approached her, and found not that she had the tokens of virginity, 15 then shall the father of the damsel and her mother take and bring forth the tokens of the virginity of the damsel, unto the elders of the city, in the gate; 16 and the father of the damsel shall say unto the elders, - My daughter, gave I unto this man to wife and he hated her; 17 and lo! he, hath raised occasions of speech, saying - I found not that thy daughter had the tokens of virginity and yet, these, are the tokens of the virginity of my daughter. And they shall spread out the garment before the elders of the city. 18 Then shall the elders of that city take the man, and chastise him; 19 and fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought an evil name upon a virgin of Israel, and she shall remain his wife, he may not put her away, all his days. 20 But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found with the damsel, 21 then shall they bring forth the damsel into the entrance of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die, because she hath wrought wickedness in Israel, by committing unchastity in her father's house, - so shalt thou consume the wicked thing out of thy midst. 22 When a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then shall, both, of them die, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman, so shalt thou consume the wicked thing out of 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
And it came to pass, ere yet, he, had done speaking, that lo! Rebekah, was coming forth who had been born to Bethuel son of Milcah, wife of Nahor, brother of Abraham, - with her pitcher upon her shoulder,
Genesis 24:24
And she said unto him, Daughter of Bethuel, am, I, - Bethuel son of Milcah whom she bare to Nahor.
Genesis 24:47
Then I asked her, and said, Whose daughter art thou? And she said Daughter of Bethuel son of Nahor, whom, Milcah, bare to him, - Then put I the ring upon her nose, and the bracelets upon her hands;
Genesis 24:51
Go! Rebekah, is before thee, Take her and go thy way, - And let her become wife unto the son of thy lord, as Yahweh hath spoken.
Genesis 24:60
And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, Our sister! become thou, thousands of ten thousands, - And let thy seed take possession of the gate of them that hate them!
Genesis 24:67
And Isaac brought her into the tent of Sarah his mother; thus he took Rebekah and she became his wife and he loved her, - and Isaac consoled himself, for the loss of his mother.
Genesis 25:20
and it came to pass that, Isaac, was forty years old, when he took Rebekah daughter of Bethuel the Syrian, of the Plain of Syria, - sister of Laban the Syrian. to himself to wife.
Genesis 28:2
Rise, go thy way to Padan-aram to the house of Bethuel, thy mothers father, - and take thee from thence a wife, of the daughters of Laban, thy mothers brother.
Genesis 28:5
So Isaac sent away Jacob, and he took his journey to Padan-aram, - unto Laban son of Bethuel, the Syrian, brother of Rebekah, mother of Jacob and Esau.
Romans 9:10
And, not only so, but, when, Rebekah also, was with child, of one - Isaac our father, -

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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