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22 “If a man is found lying with a woman mar-
ried to a husband, then both of them shall
die—the man that lay with the woman, and the
22:5 anything that pertains to a man… woman; so you shall put away the evil from
woman’s garment. Found only here in the Israel.
Pentateuch, this statute prohibited a man 23 “If a young woman who is a virgin is be-
from wearing any item of feminine clothing or trothed to a husband, and a man finds her in
ornamentation or a woman from wearing any the city and lies with her, then you shall bring
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item of masculine clothing or ornamentation. them both out to the gate of that city, and you
The same word translated “abomination” was shall stone them to death with stones, the
used to describe God’s view of homosexuality young woman because she did not cry out in
(Lev. 18:22; 20:13). This instance specifically the city, and the man because he humbled his
outlawed transvestism.The creation order dis- neighbor’s wife; so you shall put away the evil
tinctions between male and female were to from among you.
be maintained without exception (Gen. 1:27). 25 “But if a man finds a betrothed young
woman in the countryside, and the man forces
bring guilt of bloodshed on your household if her and lies with her, then only the man who
anyone falls from it. lay with her shall die. But you shall do noth-
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9 “You shall not sow your vineyard with dif- ing to the young woman; there is in the young
ferent kinds of seed, lest the yield of the seed woman no sin deserving of death, for just as
which you have sown and the fruit of your when a man rises against his neighbor and
vineyard be defiled. kills him, even so is this matter. For he found
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10 “You shall not plow with an ox and a don- her in the countryside, and the betrothed
key together. young woman cried out, but there was no one
11 “You shall not wear a garment of different to save her.
sorts, such as wool and linen mixed together. 28 “If a man finds a young woman who is a vir-
12 “You shall make tassels on the four corners gin, who is not betrothed, and he seizes her
of the clothing with which you cover yourself. and lies with her, and they are found out,
13 “If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, 29 then the man who lay with her shall give to
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and detests her, and charges her with shame- the young woman’s father fifty shekels of silver,
ful conduct, and brings a bad name on her, and she shall be his wife because he has hum-
and says, ‘I took this woman, and when I came bled her; he shall not be permitted to divorce
to her I found she was not a virgin,’ then the her all his days.
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father and mother of the young woman shall 30 “A man shall not take his father’s wife, nor
take and bring out the evidence of the young uncover his father’s bed.
woman’s virginity to the elders of the city at
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the gate. And the young woman’s father shall
say to the elders, ‘I gave my daughter to this
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man as wife, and he detests her. Now he has
charged her with shameful conduct, saying, “I 22:22–29 Adultery was punished by death for
the two found in the act.If the adulterous per-
found your daughter was not a virgin,” and yet sons were a man with a woman who was
these are the evidences of my daughter’s vir- pledged to be married to someone else, this
ginity.’ And they shall spread the cloth before consentual act led to the death of both parties
the elders of the city. Then the elders of that (vv. 23,24). However, if the man forced (i.e.,
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city shall take that man and punish him; and raped) the woman, then only the man’s life
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they shall fine him one hundred shekels of sil- was required (vv. 25–27). If the woman was a
ver and give them to the father of the young virgin not pledged in marriage, then the man
woman, because he has brought a bad name had to pay a fine, marry the girl, and keep her
on a virgin of Israel. And she shall be his wife; as his wife as long as he lived (vv. 28,29).
he cannot divorce her all his days.
20 “But if the thing is true, and evidences of vir-
ginity are not found for the young woman, then
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they shall bring out the young woman to the Psalm 38:9–22
door of her father’s house, and the men of her 9 Lord, all my desire is before You;
city shall stone her to death with stones, And my sighing is not hidden from You.
because she has done a disgraceful thing in 10 My heart pants, my strength fails me;
Israel, to play the harlot in her father’s house. As for the light of my eyes, it also has
So you shall put away the evil from among you. gone from me.
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