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Deuteronomy 20:6-7

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20:6 Or who among you has planted a vineyard and not benefited from it? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else benefit from it. 20:7 Or who among you 1  has become engaged to a woman but has not married her? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else marry her.”

Deuteronomy 28:30

Context
28:30 You will be engaged to a woman and another man will rape 2  her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not even begin to use it.
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[20:7]  1 tn Heb “Who [is] the man.”

[28:30]  1 tc For MT reading שָׁגַל (shagal, “ravish; violate”), the Syriac, Targum, and Vulgate presume the less violent שָׁכַב (shakhav, “lie with”). The unexpected counterpart to betrothal here favors the originality of the MT.



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