Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 22:22 
Context22:22 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
Context22:25 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.
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.”
