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Deuteronomy 22:22

MarriageFaithfulness and loyalty

20 If, however, this accusation is true, and no proof of the young woman’s virginity can be found,

21 she shall be brought to the door of her father’s house, and there the men of her city will stone her to death. For she has committed an outrage in Israel by being promiscuous in her father’s house. So you must purge the evil from among you.

If a man is found lying with another man’s wife, both the man who slept with her and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.

23 If there is a virgin pledged in marriage to a man, and another man encounters her in the city and sleeps with her,

24 you must take both of them out to the gate of that city and stone them to death—the young woman because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he has violated his neighbor’s wife. So you must purge the evil from among you.

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
If a man is found lying with another man’s wife, both the man who slept with her and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.
KJV
If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.
WEB
If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both die, the man who lay with the woman and the woman. So you shall remove the evil from Israel.
ASV
If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away the evil from Israel.
DARBY
If a man be found lying with a man's wife, they shall both of them die, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman; and thou shalt put away evil from Israel.
BLB
If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall die, even the two of them, the man that lay with the woman and the woman. And you shall put away the evil from Israel.
ÅB
Når en mann gripes i å ligge hos en gift kvinne, så skal de begge dø, både mannen som lå hos kvinnen, og kvinnen selv; slik skal du rydde det onde bort av Israel.
OTB
Hvis en mann blir funnet liggende med en gift kvinne, må både mannen som lå med henne og kvinnen dø. Du må rense ut det onde fra Israel.
B1930
Når en mann gripes i å ligge hos en gift kvinne, så skal de begge dø, både mannen som lå hos kvinnen, og kvinnen selv; således skal du rydde det onde bort av Israel.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Leviticus 20:10

    If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress must surely be put to death.

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  • Ezekiel 23:45–47

    But righteous men will sentence them to the punishment of those who commit adultery and bloodshed, because they are adulteresses with blood on their hands.

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  • Hebrews 13:4

    Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

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  • John 8:4–5

    and said, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery.

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  • Ezekiel 16:38

    And I will sentence you to the punishment of women who commit adultery and those who shed blood; so I will bring upon you the wrath of your bloodshed and jealousy.

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  • Numbers 5:22–27

    May this water that brings a curse enter your stomach and cause your belly to swell and your thigh to shrivel.’ Then the woman is to say, ‘Amen, Amen.’

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