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21 she is to be brought to the door of her father’s house and there the men of the town will stone her to death. She did a disgraceful thing in Israel, committing fornication in her father’s house. You must purge this evil from your midst.[a]

22 If a man is discovered sleeping with another man’s wife, both the man who slept with the woman and the woman must be put to death. You must purge the evil from Israel.

23 If a man encounters a young woman who is betrothed to another man and he sleeps with her,

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  1. Deuteronomy 22:21 An unfaithful fiancée is regarded as an adulteress, because a betrothal had the juridical effects of marriage.