Verse 25
But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field ,.... Alone, and where she might cry out, and none hear, nor were any to help her:
and a man force her, and lie with her ; or "take fast and strong hold on her" F2 והחזיק בה "et apprehenderit (in) eam", Pagninus, Montanus; "et apprehendens eam", Piscator. ; so that she is not able to get out of his hands, and make her escape, he being stronger than she, and so commits a rape upon her:
then the man only that lay with her shall die ; he being guilty of adultery, in lying with a woman espoused to another man, but not she, because she consented not to it.
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