Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 22:23 
Context22:23 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
Context22:25 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
Context22:27 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.
