Deuteronomy 22:24 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁴ you shall bring both of them to the gate of that town and stone them to death, the young woman because she did not cry for help in the town and the man because he violated his neighbor’s wife. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁴ then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁴ Then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city and shall stone them to death–the young woman because she did not cry for help though she was in the city, and the man because he has violated his neighbor's [promised] wife. So shall you put away evil from among you.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁴ then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them to death with stones; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbor’s wife: so thou shalt put away the evil from the midst of thee.

Common English Bible

²⁴ you must bring both of them to the city gates there and stone them until they die—the young woman because she didn’t call for help in the city, and the man because of the fact that he humiliated his neighbor’s wife. Remove such evil from your community!

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁴ then you shall lead them both out to the gate of that city, and they shall be stoned to death: the girl, because she did not cry out though she was in the city; the man, because he has humiliated the wife of his neighbor. And so shall you take away the evil from your midst.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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.

Deuteronomy 22:24 Cross References

Genesis 29:21

Then Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife that I may go in to her, for my time is completed.”

Job 31:11

For that would be a heinous crime; that would be a criminal offense;

Ezekiel 16:38

I will judge you as women who commit adultery and shed blood are judged and bring blood upon you in wrath and jealousy.

Leviticus 20:10

“If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall be put to death.

Matthew 1:20

But just when he had resolved to do this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife, for the child conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.

Matthew 1:24

When Joseph awoke from sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord commanded him; he took her as his wife

1 Corinthians 5:13

God will judge those outside. “Drive out the wicked person from among you.”

1 Corinthians 5:2

And you are arrogant! Should you not rather have mourned, so that he who has done this would have been removed from among you?

Deuteronomy 13:5

But those prophets or those who divine by dreams shall be put to death for having spoken treason against the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery, to turn you from the way in which the Lord your God commanded you to walk. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.

Deuteronomy 17:7

The hands of the witnesses shall be the first raised against the person to execute the death penalty and afterward the hands of all the people. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.

Deuteronomy 21:14

But if you are not satisfied with her, you shall let her go free and certainly not sell her for money. You must not treat her as a slave, since you have dishonored her.

Deuteronomy 22:23

“If there is a young woman, a virgin already engaged to be married, and a man meets her in the town and lies with her,

Deuteronomy 22:25

“But if the man meets the engaged woman in the open country and the man seizes her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die.