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Deuteronomy 22:21 KJV
Deuteronomy · chapter 22 · verse 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.Deuteronomy 22:21 · King James Version
Deuteronomy 22:21 in context
19And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.
20But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel:
21Then 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.
22If 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.
23If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- father'sʼâbfather, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote applicationH1 →
- wroughtʻâsâhto do or make, in the broadest sense and widest applicationH6213 →
- damselnaʻărâha girlH5291 →
- stonesʼebena stoneH68 →
- housebayitha houseH1004 →
- stoneçâqalproperly, to be weightyH5619 →
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These laws relate to the seventh commandment, laying a restraint by laying a penalty upon those fleshly lusts which war against the soul. I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 13-30