Deuteronomy 22:22 - Revised Standard Version CI

²² “If a man is found lying with the wife of another man, both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman; so you shall purge the evil from Israel.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²² If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²² If a man is found lying with another man's wife, they shall both die, the man who lay with the woman and the woman. So you shall purge the evil from Israel.

American Standard Version (1901)

²² If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away the evil from Israel.

Common English Bible

²² If a man is found having sex with a woman who is married to someone else, both of them must die—the man who was having sex with the woman and the woman herself. Remove such evil from Israel!

Catholic Public Domain Version

²² If a man sleeps with the wife of another, then they shall both die, that is, the adulterer and the adulteress. And so shall you take away the evil from Israel.

Deuteronomy 22:22 Cross References

2 Samuel 11:5

And the woman conceived; and she sent and told David, “I am with child.”

Ezekiel 16:38

And I will judge you as women who break wedlock and shed blood are judged, and bring upon you the blood of 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 5:27

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’

Matthew 5:28

But I say to you that every one who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

1 Corinthians 6:9

Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither the immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor sexual perverts,

Deuteronomy 17:7

The hand of the witnesses shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So you shall purge the evil from the midst of you.

Hebrews 13:4

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled; for God will judge the immoral and adulterous.