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Deuteronomy 22:25
Deuteronomy 22:25 is verse 25 of Deuteronomy chapter 22, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
But if the man encounters a betrothed woman in the open country, and he overpowers her and lies with her, only the man who has done this must die.
King James Version
But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her: then the man only that lay with her shall die:
World English Bible
But if the man finds the lady who is pledged to be married in the field, and the man forces her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die;
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Deuteronomy 22:23–27 · Berean Standard Bible
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.
25 But if the man encounters a betrothed woman in the open country, and he overpowers her and lies with her, only the man who has done this must die.
26 Do nothing to the young woman, because she has committed no sin worthy of death. This case is just like one in which a man attacks his neighbor and murders him.
27 When he found her in the field, the betrothed woman cried out, but there was no one to save her.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
2 Samuel 13:14But Amnon refused to listen to her, and being stronger, he violated her and lay with her.