Deuteronomy 22:23

22:23 If a virgin is engaged to a man and another man meets her in the city and has sexual relations with her,

Deuteronomy 22:28

22:28 Suppose a man comes across a virgin who is not engaged and overpowers and rapes her and they are discovered.

Deuteronomy 22:25

22:25 But if the man came across the engaged woman in the field and overpowered her and raped her, then only the rapist must die.

Deuteronomy 24:13

24:13 You must by all means return to him at sunset the item he gave you as security so that he may sleep in his outer garment and bless you for it; it will be considered a just deed by the Lord your God.


tn Heb “finds.”

tn Heb “lies with.”

tn Heb “lies with.”

tn Heb “found,” also in vv. 27, 28.

tn Heb “lay with” here refers to a forced sexual relationship, as the accompanying verb “seized” (חָזַק, khazaq) makes clear.

tn Heb “the man who lay with her, only him.”

tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation seeks to reflect with “by all means.”

tn Or “righteous” (so NIV, NLT).