If a man find a lady who is a virgin, who is not pledged to be married, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;
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If a man find a lady who is a virgin, who is not pledged to be married, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;
If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;
If a man finds a virgin girl that is not engaged, and he seizes her and lies with her, and they are discovered,
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If a man find a lady who is a virgin, who is not pledged to be married, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;
If a man encounters a virgin who is not pledged in marriage, and he seizes her and lies with her, and they are discovered,
If a man encounters a virgin who is not pledged in marriage, and he seizes her and lies with her, and they are discovered,
If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;
If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, that is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;
If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;
If a man finde a mayde that is not betrothed, and take her, and lye with her, and they be founde,
If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, who is not espoused, and taking her, lie with her, and the matter come to judgment:
`When a man findeth a damsel, a virgin who is not betrothed, and hath caught her, and lain with her, and they have been found,
When a man finds a girl, a virgin who is not betrothed, and has caught her, and lain with her, and they have been found,
If a man finds a girl who is a virgin but who is not engaged, and if he seizes her and sleeps with her, and if they are discovered,
If a man finds a virgin girl that is not engaged, and he seizes her and lies with her, and they are discovered,
If a man find a damsel, a virgin, who is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found,
If a man finds a lady who is a virgin, who is not pledged to be married, grabs her and lies with her, and they are found,
If a man shall find a damsel that is a virgin, who is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;
If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not engaged, and he grabs her and rapes her, and someone sees them,
If a man sees a young virgin, who has not given her word to be married to anyone, and he takes her by force and has connection with her, and discovery is made of it;
If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, that is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is אֹרָ֔שָׂה to betroth H781 — appearing just 11 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
אֹרָ֔שָׂה to betroth H781 occurs in 10 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Verb forms
Repetition
Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 30 words from the Hebrew and 25 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 13 Hebrew tokens and 18 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
Topical passages linked to Deuteronomy 22:28 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
כִּֽי יִמְצָ֣א אִ֗ישׁ נער נַעֲרָ֤ה בְתוּלָה֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר לֹא אֹרָ֔שָׂה וּתְפָשָׂ֖הּ וְשָׁכַ֣ב עִמָּ֑הּ וְנִמְצָֽאוּ
If a man find a lady who is a virgin, who is not pledged to be married, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;
World English Bible · Public Domain
ἐάν δέ τις εὑρίσκω ὁ παῖς ὁ παρθένος ὅστις οὐ μνηστεύω καί βιάζομαι κοιμάω μετά αὐτός καί εὑρίσκω
And if any one should find a young virgin who has not been betrothed, and should force her and lie with her, and be found,
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
On this verse, The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
אֲרֵי יַשְׁכַּח גְבַר עוּלֶמְתָּא בְתֻלְתָּא דִי לָא מְאָרְסָא וְיֶחֱדִנַהּ וְיִשְׁכּוּב עִמַהּ וְיִשְׁתַּכְּחוּן
(no public-domain English translation for this verse)
Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
אֲרוּם יַשְׁכַּח גְּבַר עוּלֵימְתָּא בְּתוּלְתָּא דְלָא מִיקַדְשָׁא וְיֵחוּד בָּהּ וּמְשַׁמֵּשׁ עִמָּהּ וּמִשְׁתַּכְּחִין
If a man find a damsel who is not betrothed, and seize and lie with her, and they be found,
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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Deuteronomy, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 13 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼâras (“to betroth”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Deuteronomy 22:28 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
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Door43 World Missions Community
unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.