22:23 If a virgin is engaged to a man and another man meets 1 her in the city and has sexual relations with 2 her,
22:28 Suppose a man comes across a virgin who is not engaged and overpowers and rapes 3 her and they are discovered.
1 tn Heb “finds.”
2 tn Heb “lies with.”
3 tn Heb “lies with.”
5 tn Heb “found,” also in vv. 27, 28.
6 tn Heb “lay with” here refers to a forced sexual relationship, as the accompanying verb “seized” (חָזַק, khazaq) makes clear.
7 tn Heb “the man who lay with her, only him.”
7 tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation seeks to reflect with “by all means.”
8 tn Or “righteous” (so NIV, NLT).