## Sifrei Devarim Paragraph 243

###### Sifrei Devarim 243:1
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(דברים כב כו) **וְלַנַּעֲרָה לֹא תַעֲשֶׂה דָבָר** – מְלַמֵּד שֶׁפְּטָרָהּ הַכָּתוּב מִן הַמִּיתָה. מִנַּיִן אַף מִן הַקׇּרְבָּן? תַּלְמוּד לוֹמַר: **חֵטְא**. מִנַּיִן אַף מִן הַמַּכּוֹת? תַּלְמוּד לוֹמַר: **חֵטְא מָוֶת**.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
(Devarim 22:26) "But to the maiden you shall not do a thing. The maiden does not have a sin of death": We are hereby taught that Scripture exempts her from the death penalty. Whence is it derived that it exempts her from an offering as well? From "a *sin* (of death"). Whence is it derived that she is exempt from stripes as well? From "a sin of *death*," (stripes being in place of death.) We are hereby taught that she is exempt from all the punishments in the Torah. "For as a man would rise up against his neighbor and slay him, so is this thing": Now what do we learn from (this comparison to) a slayer? It (the instance of the slayer) comes (seemingly) to teach (us something about the betrothed maiden), but emerges as "learning" (something from that instance), viz.: Slayer is hereby being likened to betrothed maiden, viz.: Just as a betrothed maiden may be saved by killing the pursuer, so a man may be saved by killing the one who would slay him.


###### Sifrei Devarim 243:2
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**כִּי כַּאֲשֶׁר יָקוּם אִישׁ עַל רֵעֵהוּ וּרְצָחוֹ נֶפֶשׁ**, מְלַמֵּד שֶׁכָּל אֲנוּסִים שֶׁבַּתּוֹרָה פְּטוּרִים וּמַצִּילִים אוֹתָם בְּנַפְשָׁם. אֵין לִי אֶלָּא זֶה, מִנַּיִן אַף הָרוֹדֵף אַחַר חֲבֵרוֹ לְהָרְגוֹ וְאַחַר הַזָּכוּר? תַּלְמוּד לוֹמַר: **כֵּן הַדָּבָר הַזֶּה**. יָכוֹל אַף הָרוֹדֵף אַחַר הַבְּהֵמָה וְהַמְחַלֵּל אֶת הַשַּׁבָּת וְהָעוֹבֵד עֲבוֹדָה זָרָה? תַּלְמוּד לוֹמַר: **הַזֶּה** – זֶה בִּסְקִילָה וְאֵין כָּל אֵלּוּ בִּסְקִילָה.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
This tells me only of such an instance. Whence do I derive (the same for) one pursuing a male (to sodomize him) or pursuing one of those (cohabitation with whom is) punishable by *kareth* (cutting-off) or judicial death penalty? From "so is this *thing*." I might think (that the same applies to one pursuing a beast (to sodomize it) or one who would desecrate the Sabbath or serve idolatry; it is, therefore written "*this* (thing"). *This* is subject to stoning, but not the aforementioned.


###### Sifrei Devarim 243:3
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(דברים כב כז) **כִּי בַשָּׂדֶה מְצָאָהּ**, יָכוֹל בָּעִיר חַיֶּבֶת, בַּשָּׂדֶה תְּהֵא פְטוּרָה? תַּלְמוּד לוֹמַר: **צָעֲקָה הַנַּעֲרָה הַמְאֹרָשָׂה וְאֵין מוֹשִׁיעַ לָהּ**. הָא אִם יֵשׁ לָהּ מוֹשִׁיעַ, בֵּין בָּעִיר בֵּין בַּשָּׂדֶה חַיֶּבֶת, וְאִם אֵין לָהּ מוֹשִׁיעַ, בֵּין בָּעִיר בֵּין בַּשָּׂדֶה פְּטוּרָה.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
(*Ibid*. 27) "For in the field did he find her": I might think that in the city she is liable, and in the field, not; it is, therefore, written "she cried out and no one could save her," (the implication being that if one *could* save her and she did not cry out she is liable.) If she has no (potential) "savers," both in the city and in the field, she is not liable; if she has "savers," both in the city and in the field, she is liable.


###### Sifrei Devarim 243:4
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**צָעֲקָה**, פְּרָט לְשֶׁאָמְרָה הַנַּח לוֹ, דִּבְרֵי רַבִּי יְהוּדָה.

**Sefaria Community Translation:**
"she cried out": to exclude her saying "Let him be (i.e., do not kill him)." These are the words of R. Yehudah. "and no one could save her": The implication is that if he could save her, he does so in any manner that he can, (including killing him.)