## Sifrei Devarim Paragraph 241

###### Sifrei Devarim 241:1
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(דברים כב כב) **כִּי יִמָּצֵא אִישׁ** – בְּעֵדִים. **שֹׁכֵב עִם אִשָּׁה** – כָּל שְׁכִיבָה. **בְעֻלַת בַּעַל**, לְהָבִיא אֶת שֶׁנִּבְעֲלָה בְּבֵית אָבִיהָ וַעֲדַיִן הִיא אֲרוּסָה.

**Trans. by Marty Jaffee, 2015:**
**Pisqa’ 241**¹⁹⁷
1. “If a man is *found*” (Dt. 22:22)—
as reported by *witnesses*.
“*Bedding* a married woman” (Dt. 22:22)—
that is, any kind of *bedding*.
“Married” (Dt. 22:22)—
to include a woman who was already mounted
in her father’s house, while still betrothed.

footnotes:
¹⁹⁷ H:247-248;JN2:160.


###### Sifrei Devarim 241:2
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**וּמֵתוּ** – בִּסְתָם מִיתָה הָאֲמוּרָה בַּתּוֹרָה, בְּחֶנֶק.

**Trans. by Marty Jaffee, 2015:**
“Then, indeed both of them *shall die*” (Dt. 22:22)—
**where the mode of execution mandated by the Torah is unspecified,**
**the sentence is assumed to be strangulation**.¹⁹⁸ 155.1.

footnotes:
¹⁹⁸ Cf. Pisqa’


###### Sifrei Devarim 241:3
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**שְׁנֵיהֶם**, וְלֹא הָעוֹשִׂים מַעֲשֵׂה הִירוֹדָס,

**Trans. by Marty Jaffee, 2015:**
“*Both* of them” (Dt. 22:22)—
but not if they are engaged in the Deed of Herod,¹⁹⁹; i.e. necrophilia. RH’s test has: *ma` aseh khidudim.* rendered by Jastrow as “unnatural gratification.” The reference is explained at B.BB.3b according to a tradition that Herod had his Hasmonean wife embalmed in honey and preserved for his own sexual needs.
[which requires that the female partner already have died].²⁰⁰

footnotes:
¹⁹⁹ Heb: ma`aseh herodes
²⁰⁰ See F:271, n.13.


###### Sifrei Devarim 241:4
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כְּשֶׁהוּא אוֹמֵר **גַּם שְׁנֵיהֶם** לְרַבּוֹת הַבָּאִים מֵאַחֲרֵיהֶם.

**Trans. by Marty Jaffee, 2015:**
When He says:
“*Both* of them (Dt. 22:22)—
this includes anyone who happens along after them
[and also beds the woman].


###### Sifrei Devarim 241:5
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**הָאִישׁ הַשֹּׁכֵב עִם הָאִשָּׁה**, וְאַף עַל פִּי שֶׁהִיא קְטַנָּה.

**Trans. by Marty Jaffee, 2015:**
“The man who beds the *woman*” (Dt. 22:22)—
even if she is still a minor.


###### Sifrei Devarim 241:6
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**וְהָאִשָּׁה**, אַף עַל פִּי שֶׁנִּבְעֲלָה לְקָטָן.

**Trans. by Marty Jaffee, 2015:**
“*And* the woman” (Dt. 22:22)—
even though she was mounted by a minor.


###### Sifrei Devarim 241:7
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**וּבִעַרְתָּ הָרָע**, בַּעֵר עוֹשֵׂי הָרָעוֹת מִיִּשְׂרָאֵל!

**Trans. by Marty Jaffee, 2015:**
“And you shall expunge the evil from Israel” (Dt. 22:22)—
**expunge evil-doers from Israel**.²⁰¹ 155.1, 240.1, 241.1, 242.1.

footnotes:
²⁰¹ Cf. Pisqa’ot