Deuteronomy 22:22-23

22:22 If a man is caught having sexual relations with ¹  a married woman ²  both the man who had relations with the woman and the woman herself must die; in this way you will purge ³  evil from Israel.

22:23 If a virgin is engaged to a man and another man meets ⁴  her in the city and has sexual relations with ⁵  her,

Deuteronomy 22:30

22:30 (23:1) ⁶  A man may not marry ⁷  his father’s former ⁸  wife and in this way dishonor his father. ⁹ 

[22:22]  ¹ tn Heb “lying with” (so KJV, NASB), a Hebrew idiom for sexual relations.

[22:22]  ² tn Heb “a woman married to a husband.”

[22:22]  ³ tn Heb “burn.” See note on the phrase “purge out” in Deut 21:21.

[22:23]  ⁴ tn Heb “finds.”

[22:23]  ⁵ tn Heb “lies with.”

[22:30]  ⁶ sn Beginning with 22:30, the verse numbers through 23:25 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Hebrew text (BHS), with 22:30 ET = 23:1 HT, 23:1 ET = 23:2 HT, 23:2 ET = 23:3 HT, etc., through 23:25 ET = 23:26 HT. With 24:1 the verse numbers in the ET and HT are again the same.

[22:30]  ⁷ tn Heb “take.” In context this refers to marriage, as in the older English expression “take a wife.”

[22:30]  ⁸ sn This presupposes either the death of the father or their divorce since it would be impossible for one to marry his stepmother while his father was still married to her.

[22:30]  ⁹ tn Heb “uncover his father’s skirt” (so ASV, NASB). This appears to be a circumlocution for describing the dishonor that would come to a father by having his own son share his wife’s sexuality (cf. NAB, NIV “dishonor his father’s bed”).