22 " If a man is found lying with a married e woman , then both e of them shall die , the man who lay with the woman , and the woman ; thus you shall purge the evil from Israel .

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Deuteronomy 22:22

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.