23 (A)If there is a girl who is a virgin [a]betrothed to a man, and another man finds her in the city and sleeps with her, 24 then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city and you shall stone them [b]to death: the girl, because she did not cry out for help though she was in the city, and the man, because he has violated his neighbor’s wife. So you shall eliminate the evil from among you.

25 “But if the man finds the girl who is betrothed in the field, and the man seizes her and [c]rapes her, then only the man who [d]raped her shall die.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 22:23 A betrothed couple was considered legally married, but did not yet live together
  2. Deuteronomy 22:24 Lit with stones so that they die
  3. Deuteronomy 22:25 Lit lies down with
  4. Deuteronomy 22:25 Lit lies down with

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