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Sifrei Devarim Paragraph 241

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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.

Sefaria Community Translation

(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.

וּמֵתוּ – בִּסְתָם מִיתָה הָאֲמוּרָה בַּתּוֹרָה, בְּחֶנֶק.

Sefaria Community Translation

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

שְׁנֵיהֶם, וְלֹא הָעוֹשִׂים מַעֲשֵׂה הִירוֹדָס,

Sefaria Community Translation

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

כְּשֶׁהוּא אוֹמֵר גַּם שְׁנֵיהֶם לְרַבּוֹת הַבָּאִים מֵאַחֲרֵיהֶם.

Sefaria Community Translation

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

הָאִישׁ הַשֹּׁכֵב עִם הָאִשָּׁה, וְאַף עַל פִּי שֶׁהִיא קְטַנָּה.

Sefaria Community Translation

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

וְהָאִשָּׁה, אַף עַל פִּי שֶׁנִּבְעֲלָה לְקָטָן.

Sefaria Community Translation

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

וּבִעַרְתָּ הָרָע, בַּעֵר עוֹשֵׂי הָרָעוֹת מִיִּשְׂרָאֵל!

Sefaria Community Translation

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

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