Deuteronomy 22:22

22:22 If a man is caught having sexual relations with ¹  a married woman ²  both the man who had relations with the woman and the woman herself must die; in this way you will purge ³  evil from Israel.

Deuteronomy 22:25

22:25 But if the man came across ⁴  the engaged woman in the field and overpowered her and raped ⁵  her, then only the rapist ⁶  must die.

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¹ tn Heb “lying with” (so KJV, NASB), a Hebrew idiom for sexual relations.

² tn Heb “a woman married to a husband.”

³ tn Heb “burn.” See note on the phrase “purge out” in Deut 21:21.

⁴ tn Heb “found,” also in vv. 27, 28.

⁵ tn Heb “lay with” here refers to a forced sexual relationship, as the accompanying verb “seized” (חָזַק, khazaq) makes clear.

⁶ tn Heb “the man who lay with her, only him.”