Deuteronomy 22:25
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:
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Gill's Exposition
But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing,.... Neither fine her, nor beat her, and much less punish her with death:
there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death; because what was done to her was…
These laws relate to the seventh commandment, laying a restraint by laying a penalty upon those fleshly lusts which war against the soul.
I. If a man, lusting after another woman, to get rid of his…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
But if in the field the man find, etc.] So the emphatic Heb. order. Fieldhere in its wider and probably earlier sense, of the uncultivated, therefore uninhabited, land. So Deu 22:22; Deu 21:1.
force…