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Brenton's Septuagint

Deuteronomy 22:23

And if there be a young damsel espoused to a man, and a man should have found her in the city and have lain with her;

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

Christian Standard Bible®
If there is a young woman who is a virgin engaged to a man, and another man encounters her in the city and sleeps with her,
Hebrew Names Version
If there be a young lady who is a virgin pledged to be married to a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;
King James Version
If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;
Lexham English Bible
"If it happens that a young woman, a virgin, is engaged to a man, and a man finds her in the town and lies with her,
English Standard Version
"If there is a betrothed virgin, and a man meets her in the city and lies with her,
New Century Version
If a man meets a virgin in a city and has sexual relations with her, but she is engaged to another man,
New English Translation
If a virgin is engaged to a man and another man meets her in the city and has sexual relations with her,
Amplified Bible
"If a young woman who is a virgin is engaged (legally betrothed) to a man, and another man finds her in the city and is intimate with her,
New American Standard Bible
"If there is a girl who is a virgin betrothed to a man, and another man finds her in the city and sleeps with her,
Geneva Bible (1587)
If a maid be betrothed vnto an husband, & a man finde her in the towne & lye with her,
Legacy Standard Bible
"If there is a girl who is a virgin engaged to a man, and another man finds her in the city and lies with her,
Contemporary English Version
If a man is caught in town having sex with an engaged woman who isn't screaming for help, they both must be put to death. The man is guilty of having sex with a married woman. And the woman is guilty because she didn't call for help, even though she was inside a town and people were nearby. Take them both to the town gate and stone them to death. You must get rid of the evil they brought into your community.
Complete Jewish Bible
"If a girl who is a virgin is engaged to a man, and another man comes upon her in the town and has sexual relations with her;
Darby Translation
If a damsel, a virgin, be betrothed to some one, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her,
Easy-to-Read Version
"A man might meet a virgin girl engaged to another man. He might have sexual relations with her. If this happens in the city,
George Lamsa Translation
If there is a damsel who is a virgin and who is betrothed to a man, and another man find her in the city and lie with her;
Good News Translation
"Suppose a man is caught in a town having intercourse with a young woman who is engaged to someone else.
Literal Translation
If there is a girl that is a virgin, betrothed to a man, and a man finds her in the city, and lies with her,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yf a mayde be handfested to eny man, & another man getteth her in the cite, & lyeth with her,
American Standard Version
If there be a damsel that is a virgin betrothed unto a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;
Bible in Basic English
If a young virgin has given her word to be married to a man, and another man meeting her in the town, has connection with her;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
If a mayde be betrouthed vnto an husbande, and then a man finde her in the towne, and lye with her:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
If there be a damsel that is a virgin betrothed unto a man, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;
King James Version (1611)
If a damosell that is a virgin be betrothed vnto an husband, and a man find her in the citie, and lie with her:
English Revised Version
If there be a damsel that is a virgin betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;
Berean Standard Bible
If there is a virgin pledged in marriage to a man, and another man encounters her in the city and sleeps with her,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
If a man spousith a damysel virgyn, and a man fyndith hir in the citee, and doith letcherie with hir,
Young's Literal Translation
`When there is a damsel, a virgin, betrothed to a man, and a man hath found her in a city, and lain with her;
Update Bible Version
If there is a damsel that is a virgin betrothed to a husband, and a man finds her in the city, and lies with her;
Webster's Bible Translation
If a damsel [that is] a virgin shall be betrothed to a husband, and a man shall find her in the city, and lie with her;
World English Bible
If there be a young lady who is a virgin pledged to be married to a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;
New King James Version
"If a young woman who is a virgin is betrothed to a husband, and a man finds her in the city and lies with her,
New Living Translation
"Suppose a man meets a young woman, a virgin who is engaged to be married, and he has sexual intercourse with her. If this happens within a town,
New Life Bible
"If a girl who has never had a man is promised in marriage to a man, another man might find her in the city and lie with her.
New Revised Standard
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,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
When a damsel that is a virgin is betrothed to a husband, - and a man findeth her in the city, and lieth 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,
Revised Standard Version
"If there is a betrothed virgin, and a man meets her in the city and lies with her,
THE MESSAGE
If a man comes upon a virgin in town, a girl who is engaged to another man, and sleeps with her, take both of them to the town gate and stone them until they die—the girl because she didn't yell out for help in the town and the man because he raped her, violating the fiancée of his neighbor. You must purge the evil from among you.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"If there is a girl who is a virgin engaged to a man, and another man finds her in the city and lies with her,

Contextual Overview

13 And if any one should take a wife, and dwell with her, and hate her, 14 and attach to her reproachful words, and bring against her an evil name, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her I found not her tokens of virginity: 15 then the father and the mother of the damsel shall take and bring out the damsel’s tokens of virginity to the elders of the city to the gate. 16 And the father of the damsel shall say to the elders, I gave this my daughter to this man for a wife; 17 and now he has hated her, and attaches reproachful words to her, saying, I have not found tokens of virginity with thy daughter; and these are the tokens of my daughter’s virginity. And they shall unfold the garment before the elders of the city. 18 And the elders of that city shall take that man, and shall chastise him, 19 and shall fine him a hundred shekels, and shall give them to the father of the damsel, because he has brought forth an evil name against a virgin of Israel; and she shall be his wife: he shall never be able to put her away. 20 But if this report be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel; 21 then shall they bring out the damsel to the doors of her father’s house, and shall stone her with stones, and she shall die; because she has wrought folly among the children of Israel, to defile the house of her father by whoring: so thou shalt remove the evil one from among you. 22 And if a man be found lying with a woman married to a man, ye shall kill them both, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou remove the wicked one out of 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
And it came to pass before he had done speaking in his mind, that behold, Rebecca the daughter of Bathuel, the son of Melcha, the wife of Nachor, and the same the brother of Abraam, came forth, having a water-pot on her shoulders.
Genesis 24:24
And she said to him, I am the daughter of Bathuel the son of Melcha, whom she bore to Nachor.
Genesis 24:47
And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter art thou? tell me; and she said, I am daughter of Bathuel the son of Nachor, whom Melcha bore to him; and I put on her the ear-rings, and the bracelets on her hands.
Genesis 24:51
Behold, Rebecca is before thee, take her and go away, and let her be wife to the son of thy master, as the Lord has said.
Genesis 24:60
And they blessed Rebecca, and said to her, Thou art our sister; become thou thousands of myriads, and let thy seed possess the cities of their enemies.
Genesis 24:67
And Isaac went into the house of his mother, and took Rebecca, and she became his wife, and he loved her; and Isaac was comforted for Sarrha his mother.
Genesis 25:20
Abraam begot Isaac. And Isaac was forty years old when he took to wife Rebecca, daughter of Bathuel the Syrian, out of Syrian Mesopotamia, sister of Laban the Syrian.
Genesis 28:2
Rise and depart quickly into Mesopotamia, to the house of Bathuel the father of thy mother, and take to thyself thence a wife of the daughters of Laban thy mother’s brother.
Genesis 28:5
So Isaac sent away Jacob, and he went into Mesopotamia to Laban the son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebecca the mother of Jacob and Esau.

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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