23. “A man might meet a virgin girl engaged to another man. He might have sexual relations with her. If this happens in the city,
24. you must bring them both out to the public place near the gate of that city, and you must kill them with stones. You must kill the man, because he used another man’s wife for sexual sin. And you must kill the girl, because she was in the city but did not call for help. You must remove this evil from your people.
25. “But if a man finds an engaged girl out in the field and forces her to have sexual relations with him, only the man must die.
26. You must do nothing to the girl. She did nothing that deserves the punishment of death. This is like someone attacking their neighbor and killing them.
27. The man found the engaged girl out in the field and attacked her. Maybe she called for help, but there was no one to help her.
28. “A man might find a virgin girl who is not engaged and force her to have sexual relations with him. If other people see this happen,
29. he must pay the girl’s father 20 ounces of silver. And the girl will become the man’s wife, because he used her for sexual sin. He cannot divorce her all his life.
30. “A man must not bring shame to his father by marrying his father’s wife.