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Sifrei on DeuteronomySifrei Devarim 241

Sifrei on Deuteronomy

Sifrei Devarim 241

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(Devarim 22:22) "If there be found (by witnesses) a man lying with a woman cohabited with by a husband": including one who was cohabited with in her father's house": i.e., while betrothed (and not yet married). Variantly: "cohabited with by a husband": R. Yishmael says: Scripture comes to teach us about a yevamah (a woman awaiting levirate marriage) that one who lives with her is not liable (to the death penalty) until he (the yavam) cohabits with her.

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"then they shall die": by the unqualified death penalty of the Torah — strangulation.

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"also both of them": and not one who performs acts of arousal (without intercourse).

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"also both of them": to include those who (might) cohabit with her after them.

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"the man who lay with the woman" — though she be a minor;

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"and the woman": even though she cohabited with a minor.

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"and you shall remove the evil": Remove the doers of evil from Israel.

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