Deuteronomy 22:23
23 If a man comes upon a virgin in town, a girl who is engaged to another man, and sleeps with her,
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Matthew Henry's Commentary on Deuteronomy 22:23
Commentary on Deuteronomy 22:13-30
(Read Deuteronomy 22:13-30)
These and the like regulations might be needful then, and yet it is not necessary that we should curiously examine respecting them. The laws relate to the seventh commandment, laying a restraint upon fleshly lusts which war against the soul.