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23 “If a man meets a young virgin lady in the city who is engaged to be married and has sexual relations with her, 24 then the two must be brought to the city gate and there they must be stoned to death—the girl because she was in a city but did not cry out for help, and the man who abused a woman who was engaged to another man. By doing this you are to remove this evil from among you.

25 “If a man meets a girl in the country who is engaged to be married and then rapes[a] her, the man alone—the one who had sexual relations with her—must die.

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  1. Deuteronomy 22:25 Lit. overwhelms