25But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her: then the man only that lay with her shall die:
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Howbeit he would not hearken unto her voice: but, being stronger than she, forced her, and lay with her.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-30)These laws relate to the seventh commandment, laying a restraint by laying a penalty upon those fleshly lusts which war against the soul. I. If a man, lusting after another woman, to get rid of his wife slander her and falsely accuse her, as not having the virginity she pretended to when he married her, upon the disproof of his slander he must be punished, Deut. 22:13-19. What the meaning of that…
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