Deuteronomy 22:23-25

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, 22:24 you must bring the two of them to the gate of that city and stone them to death, the young woman because she did not cry out though in the city and the man because he violated ³  his neighbor’s fiancée; ⁴  in this way you will purge ⁵  evil from among you. 22:25 But if the man came across ⁶  the engaged woman in the field and overpowered her and raped ⁷  her, then only the rapist ⁸  must die.

Deuteronomy 24:5

24:5 When a man is newly married, he need not go into ⁹  the army nor be obligated in any way; he must be free to stay at home for a full year and bring joy to ¹⁰  the wife he has married.

Matthew 1:18

The Birth of Jesus Christ

1:18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ happened this way. While his mother Mary was engaged to Joseph, but before they came together, ¹¹  she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit.

[22:23]  ¹ tn Heb “finds.”

[22:23]  ² tn Heb “lies with.”

[22:24]  ³ tn Heb “humbled.”

[22:24]  ⁴ tn Heb “wife.”

[22:24]  ⁵ tn Heb “burn.” See note on the phrase “purge out” in Deut 21:21.

[22:25]  ⁶ tn Heb “found,” also in vv. 27, 28.

[22:25]  ⁷ tn Heb “lay with” here refers to a forced sexual relationship, as the accompanying verb “seized” (חָזַק, khazaq) makes clear.

[22:25]  ⁸ tn Heb “the man who lay with her, only him.”

[24:5]  ⁹ tn Heb “go out with.”

[24:5]  ¹⁰ tc For the MT’s reading Piel שִׂמַּח (simmakh, “bring joy to”), the Syriac and others read שָׂמַח (samakh, “enjoy”).

[1:18]  ¹¹ tn The connotation of the Greek is “before they came together in marital and domestic union” (so BDAG 970 s.v. συνέρχομαι 3).