◄ Deuteronomy 22:23 ►
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Good News Translation
"Suppose a man is caught in a town having intercourse with a young woman who is engaged to someone else.

New Revised Standard Version
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,

New American Bible
If there is a young woman, a virgin who is betrothed, and a man comes upon her in the city and lies with her,

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,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If a man have espoused a damsel that is a virgin, and some one find her in the city, and lie with her,

Deuteronomy 20:7 What man is there, that hath espoused a wife, and not taken her? let him go, and return to his house, lest he die in the war, and another man take her.

Matthew 1:18,19 Now the generation of Christ was in this wise. When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child, of the Holy Ghost. . . .

Context
Marriage Violations
…22If a man lie with another man's wife, they shall both die, that is to say, the adulterer and the adulteress: and thou shalt take away the evil out of Israel. 23If a man have espoused a damsel that is a virgin, and some one find her in the city, and lie with her,24Thou shalt bring them both out to the gate of that city, and they shall be stoned: the damsel, because she cried not out, being in the city: the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife. And thou shalt take away the evil from the midst of thee.…
Cross References
Matthew 1:18
Now the generation of Christ was in this wise. When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child, of the Holy Ghost.

Matthew 1:19
Whereupon Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing publicly to expose her, was minded to put her away privately.

Leviticus 19:20
If a man carnally lie with a woman that is a bondservant and marriageable, and yet not redeemed with a price, nor made free: they both shall be scourged: and they shall not be put to death, because she was not a free woman.

Deuteronomy 22:24
Thou shalt bring them both out to the gate of that city, and they shall be stoned: the damsel, because she cried not out, being in the city: the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife. And thou shalt take away the evil from the midst of thee.

Deuteronomy 22:22
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