Deuteronomy 22:15-16
22:15 Then the father and mother of the young woman must produce the evidence of virginity 1 for the elders of the city at the gate.
22:16 The young woman’s father must say to the elders, “I gave my daughter to this man and he has rejected 2 her.
Deuteronomy 22:25
22:25 But if the man came across 3 the engaged woman in the field and overpowered her and raped 4 her, then only the rapist 5 must die.
Deuteronomy 22:27
22:27 for the man 6 met her in the field and the engaged woman cried out, but there was no one to rescue her.
1 sn In light of v. 17 this would evidently be blood-stained sheets indicative of the first instance of intercourse. See E. H. Merrill, Deuteronomy (NAC), 302-3.
2 tn Heb “hated.” See note on the word “other” in Deut 21:15.
3 tn Heb “found,” also in vv. 27, 28.
4 tn Heb “lay with” here refers to a forced sexual relationship, as the accompanying verb “seized” (חָזַק, khazaq) makes clear.
5 tn Heb “the man who lay with her, only him.”
6 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the man who attacked the woman) has been specified in the translation for clarity.