20 “But if this [a](A)charge is true, and they did not find the girl to have evidence of virginity, 21 then they shall bring the girl out to the doorway of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her [b]to death, because she has (B)committed a disgraceful sin in Israel by playing the prostitute in her father’s house; so (C)you shall eliminate the evil from among you.

22 (D)If a man is found sleeping with a married woman, then both of them shall die, the man who slept with the woman, and the woman; so you shall eliminate the evil from Israel.

23 (E)If there is a girl who is a virgin [c]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 [d]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.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 22:20 Lit matter
  2. Deuteronomy 22:21 Lit with stones so that she dies
  3. Deuteronomy 22:23 A betrothed couple was considered legally married, but did not yet live together
  4. Deuteronomy 22:24 Lit with stones so that they die

Law of Divorce

24 “When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens, if she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some (A)indecency in her, that (B)he writes her a certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand, and [a]sends her away from his house, and she leaves his house and goes and becomes another man’s wife, and the latter husband [b]turns against her, writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand, and [c]sends her away from his house, or if the latter husband who took her to be his wife dies, then her (C)former husband who [d]sent her away is not allowed to take her again to be his wife, after [e]she has been defiled; for that is an abomination before the Lord, and you shall not bring sin on the land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 24:1 Or dismisses her
  2. Deuteronomy 24:3 Lit hates her
  3. Deuteronomy 24:3 Or dismisses her
  4. Deuteronomy 24:4 Or dismissed her
  5. Deuteronomy 24:4 I.e., in relationship to him

they *said to Him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the very act of committing adultery. Now in the Law, (A)Moses commanded us to stone such women; what then do You say?”

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