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Sifrei Devarim 242

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English · Shraga Silverstein

(Devarim 22:23) "If there be a na'arah, a virgin, betrothed": We are hereby taught that he is not liable (to stoning) unless she be a na'arah (and not a bogereth [viz. #238]), a virgin, and betrothed to a man (and not married).

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English · Shraga Silverstein

"and a man find her in the city": If she had not gone about in the city, this would not have befallen her

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English · Shraga Silverstein

— "The breach beckons to the thief." "and lie with her": any kind of intercourse (natural or unnatural).

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English · Shraga Silverstein

(Ibid. 24) "Then you shall take out both of them to the gate of that city": to the gate where she was found and not to the gate where she was judged.

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English · Shraga Silverstein

"and you shall stone them with stones": I might think with many stones; it is, therefore, written (Vayikra 20:27) "with a stone." If "with a stone," I might think even with one stone. It is, therefore, written "with stones." Say, then (that the meaning is) if they do not die with the first stone, they die with the second.

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English · Shraga Silverstein

"the maiden because (lit., "by word of") she did not cry out": What is the intent of "by word of": to include her who transgressed willfully as requiring (for stoning) the forewarning of witnesses (i.e., because of her violation of the word of warning).

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English · Shraga Silverstein

"and the man, because (i.e., "by word of") he afflicted his neighbor's wife": What is the intent of "by word of"? By forewarning.

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English · Shraga Silverstein

This verse is not included in this edition.

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English · Shraga Silverstein

(Ibid. 25) "And if in the field the man find the betrothed maiden and lie with her": to exclude an instance where one holds her and the other lies with her, (in which instance there is no death penalty.) These are the words of R. Yehudah.

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English · Shraga Silverstein

"then the man who lay with her shall be put to death (by stoning) alone: the first, by stoning, (because he violated a virgin); the second, (if there is one,) by strangulation. These are the words of Rebbi.

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