Deuteronomy 20:7
Context20:7 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 22:25
Context22:25 But if the man came across 2 the engaged woman in the field and overpowered her and raped 3 her, then only the rapist 4 must die.
Deuteronomy 28:30
Context28:30 You will be engaged to a woman and another man will rape 5 her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not even begin to use it.
[20:7] 1 tn Heb “Who [is] the man.”
[22:25] 2 tn Heb “found,” also in vv. 27, 28.
[22:25] 3 tn Heb “lay with” here refers to a forced sexual relationship, as the accompanying verb “seized” (חָזַק, khazaq) makes clear.
[22:25] 4 tn Heb “the man who lay with her, only him.”
[28:30] 3 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.





