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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

申命记 22:23

“如果有個少女,本來是處女,已經許配了人,有人在城裡遇見了她,和她同寢,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Adultery;   Church;   Punishment;   Seduction;   Virgin;   Women;   The Topic Concordance - Execution;   Sexual Activities;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Marriage;   Woman;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Execution;   Fornication;   Marriage;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Divorce;   Marriage;   Punishment;   Sexuality, Human;   Woman;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Fornication;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Adultery;   Law;   Marriage;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Betrothal;   Capital Punishment;   Crimes and Punishments;   Sex, Biblical Teaching on;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Crimes and Punishments;   Deuteronomy;   Leviticus;   Marriage;   Virgin;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Adultery ;   Betrothal;   Birth of Christ;   Joseph (2);   Marriage;   Stoning (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Adultery;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Marriage;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Adultery;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Peculiarities of the Law of Moses;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Adultery;   Law in the Old Testament;   Marriage;   Punishments;   Seduce;   Virgin;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Capital Punishment;   Chastity;   Marriage;   Marriage Laws;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
若 有 处 女 已 经 许 配 丈 夫 , 有 人 在 城 里 遇 见 他 , 与 他 行 淫 ,

Contextual Overview

13 If a man marries a girl and has sexual relations with her but then decides he does not like her, 14 he might talk badly about her and give her a bad name. He might say, "I married this woman, but when I had sexual relations with her, I did not find that she was a virgin." 15 Then the girl's parents must bring proof that she was a virgin to the elders at the city gate. 16 The girl's father will say to the elders, "I gave my daughter to this man to be his wife, but now he does not want her. 17 This man has told lies about my daughter. He has said, ‘I did not find your daughter to be a virgin,' but here is the proof that my daughter was a virgin." Then her parents are to show the sheet to the elders of the city, 18 and the elders must take the man and punish him. 19 They must make him pay about two and one-half pounds of silver to the girl's father, because the man has given an Israelite virgin a bad name. The girl will continue to be the man's wife, and he may not divorce her as long as he lives. 20 But if the things the husband said about his wife are true, and there is no proof that she was a virgin, 21 the girl must be brought to the door of her father's house. Then the men of the town must put her to death by throwing stones at her. She has done a disgraceful thing in Israel by having sexual relations before she was married. You must get rid of the evil among you. 22 If a man is found having sexual relations with another man's wife, both the woman and the man who had sexual relations with her must die. Get rid of this evil from Israel.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 20:7, Matthew 1:18, Matthew 1:19

Reciprocal: Leviticus 19:20 - she shall be scourged

Cross-References

Genesis 24:15
Before the servant had finished praying, Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel, came out of the city. (Bethuel was the son of Milcah and Nahor, Abraham's brother.) Rebekah was carrying her water jar on her shoulder.
Genesis 24:24
Rebekah answered, "My father is Bethuel, the son of Milcah and Nahor."
Genesis 24:47
When I asked her, ‘Who is your father?' she answered, ‘My father is Bethuel son of Milcah and Nahor.' Then I put the ring in her nose and the bracelets on her arms,
Genesis 24:51
Rebekah is yours. Take her and go. Let her marry your master's son as the Lord has commanded."
Genesis 24:60
They blessed Rebekah and said, "Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of people, and may your descendants capture the cities of their enemies."
Genesis 24:67
Then Isaac brought Rebekah into the tent of Sarah, his mother, and she became his wife. Isaac loved her very much, and so he was comforted after his mother's death.
Genesis 25:20
When Isaac was forty years old, he married Rebekah, who came from Northwest Mesopotamia. She was Bethuel's daughter and the sister of Laban the Aramean.
Genesis 28:2
Go to the house of Bethuel, your mother's father, in Northwest Mesopotamia. Laban, your mother's brother, lives there. Marry one of his daughters.
Genesis 28:5
So Isaac sent Jacob to Northwest Mesopotamia, to Laban the brother of Rebekah. Bethuel the Aramean was the father of Laban and Rebekah, and Rebekah was the mother of Jacob and Esau.
Romans 9:10
And that is not all. Rebekah's sons had the same father, our father Isaac.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband,.... But not married, not as yet brought home to her husband's house, and the marriage consummated; for the Jews distinguish between being betrothed or espoused, and married; and generally there was some time between the one and the other. And a wife was obtained in this way by three things; by money, which was the most usual; and by writing, which was to be done before witnesses, and with her consent; and by copulation, which, though valid, was not so much approved of a. There is a whole treatise in the Misnah, called Kiddushin, or Espousals, which largely treats of this matter:

and a man find her in the city, and lie with her; with her consent, as might be presumed by her not crying out, when, had she, she might have been heard, being in a city; and her being there also makes against her, since, being betrothed to a man, she ought to have abode in her father's house till her husband fetched her home, and not to have gadded abroad in the city, where she was exposed to temptation.

a Misn. Kiddushin, c. 1. sect. 1.


 
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