Deuteronomy 22:27

When the man raped the woman who was engaged out in the countryside, she shouted out, but there wasn't anyone there to rescue her.

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In The King James Version

For he found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her.

In Context

26Don't do anything to the woman, because she has not committed a sin punishable by death. (This is the same kind of situation as when a man attacks someone else and murders them.)

28If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not engaged, and he grabs her and rapes her, and someone sees them,

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Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 22:14-30

The Punishment of Fornication. ( b. c. 1451.) 13 If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her, 14 And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid: 15 Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate: 16 And the damsel's father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and… Read the whole commentary →

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