◄ Deuteronomy 22:28 ►
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Good News Translation
"Suppose a man is caught raping a young woman who is not engaged.

New Revised Standard Version
If a man meets a virgin who is not engaged, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are caught in the act,

Contemporary English Version
Suppose a woman isn't engaged to be married, and a man forces her to have sex with him. If he is caught,

New American Bible
If a man comes upon a young woman, a virgin who is not betrothed, seizes her and lies with her, and they are discovered,

Douay-Rheims Bible
If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, who is not espoused, and taking her, lie with her, and the matter come to judgment:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, who is not espoused, and taking her, lie with her, and the matter come to judgment:

because he hath humbled

Deuteronomy 22:19,24 Condemning him besides in a hundred sicles of silver, which he shall give to the damsel's father, because he hath defamed by a very ill name a virgin of Israel: and he shall have her to wife, and may not put her away all the days of his life. . . .

Deuteronomy 21:14 But if afterwards she please thee not, thou shalt let her go free, but thou mayst not sell her for money nor oppress her by might because thou hast humbled her.

Context
Marriage Violations
…27She was alone in the field: she cried, and there was no man to help her. 28If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, who is not espoused, and taking her, lie with her, and the matter come to judgment:29He that lay with her shall give to the father of the maid fifty sicles of silver, and shall have her to wife, because he hath humbled her: he may not put her away all the days of his life.…
Cross References
Matthew 1:18
Now the generation of Christ was in this wise. When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child, of the Holy Ghost.

Exodus 22:16
If a man seduce a virgin not yet espoused, and lie with her: he shall endow her, and have her to wife.

Deuteronomy 22:27
She was alone in the field: she cried, and there was no man to help her.

Deuteronomy 22:29
He that lay with her shall give to the father of the maid fifty sicles of silver, and shall have her to wife, because he hath humbled her: he may not put her away all the days of his life.

Deuteronomy 22:27
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