20. However, if the claim is true and proof of the young woman’s virginity can’t be produced,
21. then the city’s elders will bring the young woman to the door of her father’s house. The citizens of that city must stone her until she dies because she acted so sinfully in Israel by having extramarital sex while still in her father’s house.Remove such evil from your community!
22. If a man is found having sex with a woman who is married to someone else, both of them must die—the man who was having sex with the woman and the woman herself.Remove such evil from Israel!
23. If a young woman who is a virgin is engaged to one man and another man meets up with her in a town and has sex with her,
24. you must bring both of them to the city gates there and stone them until they die—the young woman because she didn’t call for help in the city, and the man because of the fact that he humiliated his neighbor’s wife.Remove such evil from your community!
25. But if the man met up with the engaged woman in a field, grabbing her and having sex with her there, only the man will die.
26. Don’t do anything whatsoever to the young woman. She hasn’t committed any capital crime—rather, this situation is exactly like the one where someone attacks his neighbor and kills him.
27. Since the man met up with her in a field, the engaged woman may well have called out for help, but there was no one to rescue her.
28. If a man meets up with a young woman who is a virgin and not engaged, grabs her and has sex with her, and they are caught in the act,
29. the man who had sex with her must give fifty silver shekels to the young woman’s father. She will also become his wife because he has humiliated her. He is never allowed to divorce her.
30. A man cannot marry his father’s former wife so that his father’s private matters are not exposed.