Leviticus 19:20
Good News Translation
"If a slave woman is the recognized concubine of a man and she has not been paid for and freed, then if another man has sexual relations with her, they will be punished, but not put to death, since she is a slave.

New Revised Standard Version
If a man has sexual relations with a woman who is a slave, designated for another man but not ransomed or given her freedom, an inquiry shall be held. They shall not be put to death, since she has not been freed;

Contemporary English Version
If a man has sex with a slave woman who is promised in marriage to someone else, he must pay a fine, but they are not to be put to death. After all, she was still a slave at the time.

New American Bible
If a man has sexual relations with a female slave who has been acquired by another man but has not yet been redeemed or given her freedom, an investigation shall be made. They shall not be put to death, because she has not been freed.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If a man carnally lie with a woman that is a bondservant and marriageable, and yet not redeemed with a price, nor made free: they both shall be scourged: and they shall not be put to death, because she was not a free woman.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If a man carnally lie with a woman that is a bondservant and marriageable, and yet not redeemed with a price, nor made free: they both shall be scourged: and they shall not be put to death, because she was not a free woman.

betrothed to an husband.

she shall be scourged.

Exodus 21:20,21 He that striketh his bondman, or bondwoman, with a rod, and they die under his hands, shall be guilty of the crime. . . .

Deuteronomy 22:23,24 If a man have espoused a damsel that is a virgin, and some one find her in the city, and lie with her, . . .

Context
Keep My Decrees
19Keep ye my laws. Thou shalt not make thy cattle to gender with beasts of any other kind. Thou shalt not sow thy field with different seeds. Thou shalt not wear a garment that is woven of two sorts. 20If a man carnally lie with a woman that is a bondservant and marriageable, and yet not redeemed with a price, nor made free: they both shall be scourged: and they shall not be put to death, because she was not a free woman.21And for his trespass he shall offer a ram to the Lord, at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony.…
Cross References
Galatians 4:22
For it is written that Abraham had two sons: the one by a bondwoman and the other by a free woman.

Deuteronomy 22:23
If a man have espoused a damsel that is a virgin, and some one find her in the city, and lie with her,

Leviticus 19:19
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