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

Deuteronomy 20:7 What man is there, that hath espoused a wife, and not taken her? let him go, and return to his house, lest he die in the war, and another man take her.

Matthew 1:18,19 Now the generation of Christ was in this wise. When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child, of the Holy Ghost. . . .

Context
Marriage Violations
22If a man lie with another man's wife, they shall both die, that is to say, the adulterer and the adulteress: and thou shalt take away the evil out of Israel. 23If a man have espoused a damsel that is a virgin, and some one find her in the city, and lie with her,24Thou shalt bring them both out to the gate of that city, and they shall be stoned: the damsel, because she cried not out, being in the city: the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife. And thou shalt take away the evil from the midst of thee.…
Cross References
Matthew 1:18
Now the generation of Christ was in this wise. When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child, of the Holy Ghost.

Matthew 1:19
Whereupon Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing publicly to expose her, was minded to put her away privately.

Leviticus 19:20
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.

Deuteronomy 22:24
Thou shalt bring them both out to the gate of that city, and they shall be stoned: the damsel, because she cried not out, being in the city: the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife. And thou shalt take away the evil from the midst of thee.

Lexicon
If
כִּ֤י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction

there is
יִהְיֶה֙ (yih·yeh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

a virgin
בְתוּלָ֔ה (ḇə·ṯū·lāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1330: A virgin, sometimes, a bride

pledged in marriage
מְאֹרָשָׂ֖ה (mə·’ō·rā·śāh)
Verb - Pual - Participle - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 781: To engage for, matrimony

to a man,
לְאִ֑ישׁ (lə·’îš)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 376: A man as an individual, a male person

and another man
אִ֛ישׁ (’îš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 376: A man as an individual, a male person

encounters her
וּמְצָאָ֥הּ (ū·mə·ṣā·’āh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4672: To come forth to, appear, exist, to attain, find, acquire, to occur, meet, be present

in the city
בָּעִ֖יר (bā·‘îr)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5892: Excitement

and sleeps
וְשָׁכַ֥ב (wə·šā·ḵaḇ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7901: To lie down

with her,
עִמָּֽהּ׃ (‘im·māh)
Preposition | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5973: With, equally with


Additional Translations
If there is a virgin pledged in marriage to a man, and another man encounters her in the city and sleeps with her,If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed to an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;

If there be a damsel that is a virgin betrothed unto a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;

And if there be a young damsel espoused to a man, and a man should have found her in the city and have lain with her;

If a damsel, a virgin, be betrothed to some one, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her,

If there be a damsel that is a virgin betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;

If a damsel that is a virgin shall be betrothed to a husband, and a man shall find her in the city, and lie with her;

If there is a young lady who is a virgin pledged to be married to a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;

'When there is a damsel, a virgin, betrothed to a man, and a man hath found her in a city, and lain with her;
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