Deuteronomy 22:28
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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:

because he hath humbled

Deuteronomy 22:19,24 Condemning him besides in a hundred sicles of silver, which he shall give to the damsel's father, because he hath defamed by a very ill name a virgin of Israel: and he shall have her to wife, and may not put her away all the days of his life. . . .

Deuteronomy 21:14 But if afterwards she please thee not, thou shalt let her go free, but thou mayst not sell her for money nor oppress her by might because thou hast humbled her.

Context
Marriage Violations
27She was alone in the field: she cried, and there was no man to help her. 28If 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:29He that lay with her shall give to the father of the maid fifty sicles of silver, and shall have her to wife, because he hath humbled her: he may not put her away all the days of his life.…
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.

Exodus 22:16
If a man seduce a virgin not yet espoused, and lie with her: he shall endow her, and have her to wife.

Deuteronomy 22:27
She was alone in the field: she cried, and there was no man to help her.

Deuteronomy 22:29
He that lay with her shall give to the father of the maid fifty sicles of silver, and shall have her to wife, because he hath humbled her: he may not put her away all the days of his life.

Lexicon
If
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction

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

encounters
יִמְצָ֣א (yim·ṣā)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4672: To come forth to, appear, exist, to attain, find, acquire, to occur, meet, be present

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

who
אֲשֶׁ֣ר (’ă·šer)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's Hebrew 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

is not
לֹא־ (lō-)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no

pledged in marriage,
אֹרָ֔שָׂה (’ō·rā·śāh)
Verb - Pual - Perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 781: To engage for, matrimony

and he overpowers her
וּתְפָשָׂ֖הּ (ū·ṯə·p̄ā·śāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8610: To manipulate, seize, chiefly to capture, wield, to overlay, to use unwarrantably

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

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

and they are discovered,
וְנִמְצָֽאוּ׃ (wə·nim·ṣā·’ū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 4672: To come forth to, appear, exist, to attain, find, acquire, to occur, meet, be present


Additional Translations
If a man encounters a virgin who is not pledged in marriage, and he overpowers her and rapes 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;

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,

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 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 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 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;

'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,
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