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Deuteronomy 22:18-28 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

18. Then the elders of that city shall take the man, and they shall discipline him.

19. Then they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver, and they shall give them to the father of the young woman, for he defamed an Israelite young woman, and she shall become his wife; he will not be allowed to divorce her all his days.

20. “But if this charge was true, and the signs of virginity were not found for the young woman,

21. and then they shall bring out the young woman to the doorway of the house of her father, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones, and she shall die, because she did a disgraceful thing in Israel by playing the harlot in the house of her father, and so you shall purge the evil from your midst.

22. “If a man is found lying with a married woman, then they shall both die; both of them, the man who lay with the woman and the woman also, so you shall purge the evil from Israel.

23. “If it happens that a young woman, a virgin, is engaged to a man, and a man finds her in the town and lies with her,

24. then you shall bring out both of them to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them with stones so that they shall die, the young woman because she did not cry out in the town, and the man because he violated his neighbor’s wife; and so you shall purge the evil from your midst.

25. “But if the man finds the young engaged woman in the field and the man overpowers her and he has sex with her, then the man only must die who lay with her.

26. But you shall not do anything to the young woman, for there is not reckoned against the young woman a sin deserving death; it is similar to when a man rises up against his neighbor and murders him, a fellow human being, just so is this case,

27. for he found her in the field, the engaged young woman cried out, but there was no rescuer to help her.

28. “If a man finds a young woman, a virgin who is not engaged, and he seizes her and he has sex with her and they are caught,