Deuteronomy 22:23
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New International Version (©2011)
If a man happens to meet in a town a virgin pledged to be married and he sleeps with her,

New Living Translation (©2007)
"Suppose a man meets a young woman, a virgin who is engaged to be married, and he has sexual intercourse with her. If this happens within a town,

English Standard Version (©2001)
“If there is a betrothed virgin, and a man meets her in the city and lies with her,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"If there is a girl who is a virgin engaged to a man, and another man finds her in the city and lies with her,

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
If there is a young woman who is a virgin engaged to a man, and another man encounters her in the city and has sex with her,

International Standard Version (©2012)
"If a man meets a young virgin lady engaged to be married in the city and has sexual relations with her,

NET Bible (©2006)
If a virgin is engaged to a man and another man meets her in the city and has sexual relations with her,

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
This is what you must do when a man has sexual intercourse with a virgin who is engaged to another man. If this happens in a city,

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
If a young woman that is a virgin be betrothed unto a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;

American King James Version
If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed to an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;

American Standard Version
If there be a damsel that is a virgin betrothed unto a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;

Douay-Rheims Bible
If a man have espoused a damsel that is a virgin, and some one find her in the city, and lie with her,

Darby Bible Translation
If a damsel, a virgin, be betrothed to some one, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her,

English Revised Version
If there be a damsel that is a virgin betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;

Webster's Bible Translation
If a damsel that is a virgin shall be betrothed to a husband, and a man shall find her in the city, and lie with her;

World English Bible
If there is a young lady who is a virgin pledged to be married to a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;

Young's Literal Translation
'When there is a damsel, a virgin, betrothed to a man, and a man hath found her in a city, and lain with her;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

22:13-30 These and the like regulations might be needful then, and yet it is not necessary that we should curiously examine respecting them. The laws relate to the seventh commandment, laying a restraint upon fleshly lusts which war against the soul.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband,.... But not married, not as yet brought home to her husband's house, and the marriage consummated; for the Jews distinguish between being betrothed or espoused, and married; and generally there was some time between the one and the other. And a wife was obtained in this way by three things; by money, which was the most usual; and by writing, which was to be done before witnesses, and with her consent; and by copulation, which, though valid, was not so much approved of (a). There is a whole treatise in the Misnah, called Kiddushin, or Espousals, which largely treats of this matter:

and a man find her in the city, and lie with her; with her consent, as might be presumed by her not crying out, when, had she, she might have been heard, being in a city; and her being there also makes against her, since, being betrothed to a man, she ought to have abode in her father's house till her husband fetched her home, and not to have gadded abroad in the city, where she was exposed to temptation.

(a) Misn. Kiddushin, c. 1. sect. 1.

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Marriage Violations
…22If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shall you put away evil from Israel. 23If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed to an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her; 24Then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he has humbled his neighbor's wife: so you shall put away evil from among you. …

Matthew 1:18 This is how the birth of Jesus the Messiah came about: His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit.
Matthew 1:19 Because Joseph her husband was faithful to the law, and yet did not want to expose her to public disgrace, he had in mind to divorce her quietly.
Leviticus 19:20 "'If a man sleeps with a female slave who is promised to another man but who has not been ransomed or given her freedom, there must be due punishment. Yet they are not to be put to death, because she had not been freed.
Deuteronomy 22:24 you shall take both of them to the gate of that town and stone them to death--the young woman because she was in a town and did not scream for help, and the man because he violated another man's wife. You must purge the evil from among you.