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24 you must bring the two of them to the gate of that city and stone them to death, the young woman because she did not cry out though in the city and the man because he violated[a] his neighbor’s fiancée;[b] in this way you will purge[c] evil from among you. 25 But if the man came across[d] the engaged woman in the field and overpowered her and raped[e] her, then only the rapist[f] must die. 26 You must not do anything to the young woman—she has done nothing deserving of death. This case is the same as when someone attacks another person[g] and murders him,

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 22:24 tn Heb “humbled.”
  2. Deuteronomy 22:24 tn Heb “wife.”
  3. Deuteronomy 22:24 tn Heb “burn.” See note on the phrase “purge out” in Deut 21:21.
  4. Deuteronomy 22:25 tn Heb “found,” also in vv. 27, 28.
  5. Deuteronomy 22:25 tn Heb “lay with” here refers to a forced sexual relationship, as the accompanying verb “seized” (חָזַק, khazaq) makes clear.
  6. Deuteronomy 22:25 tn Heb “the man who lay with her, only him.”
  7. Deuteronomy 22:26 tn Heb “his neighbor.”