Good News Bible Anglicised

Deuteronomy 22:24-30 Good News Bible Anglicised (GNBDC)

24. You are to take them outside the town and stone them to death. The woman is to die because she did not cry out for help, although she was in a town, where she could have been heard. And the man is to die because he had intercourse with a woman who was engaged. In this way you will get rid of this evil.

25. “Suppose a man out in the countryside rapes a woman who is engaged to someone else. Then only the man is to be put to death;

26. nothing is to be done to the woman, because she has not committed a sin worthy of death. This case is the same as when one man attacks another man and murders him.

27. The man raped the engaged woman in the countryside, and although she cried for help, there was no one to help her.

28. “Suppose a man is caught raping a young woman who is not engaged.

29. He is to pay her father the bride price of fifty pieces of silver, and she is to become his wife, because he forced her to have intercourse with him. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.

30. “No man is to disgrace his father by having intercourse with any of his father's wives.