Deuteronomy 22:23

22:23 If a virgin is engaged to a man and another man meets 1  her in the city and has sexual relations with 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 tn Heb “finds.”

2 tn Heb “lies with.”

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.