KJV King James Version
If a damsel [that is] a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;
VERSE STUDY • KJV
If a damsel [that is] a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;
If a damsel [that is] a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;
If there is a virgin pledged in marriage to a man, and another man encounters her in the city and sleeps with her,
If there is a young lady who is a virgin pledged to be married to a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;
If there be a damsel that is a virgin betrothed unto a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;
‘When there is a damsel, a virgin, betrothed to a man, and a man hath found her in a city, and lain with her;
20 But if this thing be true, [and the tokens of] virginity be not found for the damsel:
21 Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father’s house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.
22 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.
23 If a damsel [that is] a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;
24 Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, [being] in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour’s wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you.
25 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:
26 But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; [there is] in the damsel no sin [worthy] of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so [is] this matter:
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