Deuteronomy 22:22

22 "If a man is found lying {with a married woman}, then they shall both die; {both of them}, the man who lay with the woman and the woman [also], so you shall purge the evil from Israel.

Deuteronomy 22:22 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 22:22

If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband,
&c.]. This law respects adultery, and is the same with that in ( Leviticus 20:10 )

then they shall both of them die;
with the strangling of a napkin, as the Targum of Jonathan, which is the death such persons were put to; and is always meant when death is simply spoken of, and it is not specified what death; (See Gill on Leviticus 20:10):

both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman;
they were both to die, and to die the same death:

so shalt thou put away evil from Israel;
such that do it, as the above Targum; (See Gill on Deuteronomy 22:21).

Deuteronomy 22:22 In-Context

20 "But if {this charge} was true, {and the signs of virginity were not found} for the young woman,

21 and [then] they shall bring out the young woman to the doorway of the house of her father, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones, and she shall die, because she did a disgraceful thing in Israel {by playing the harlot} [in] the house of her father, and so you shall purge the evil from your midst.

22 "If a man is found lying {with a married woman}, then they shall both die; {both of them}, the man who lay with the woman and the woman [also], so you shall purge the evil from Israel.

23 "If it happens [that] a young woman, a virgin, [is] engaged to a man, [and] a man finds her in the town and lies with her,

24 then you shall bring out {both of them} to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them with stones so that they shall die, the young woman because she did not cry out in the town, and the man because he violated his neighbor's wife; and so you shall purge the evil from your midst.

Footnotes

• [a]. Literally "with a woman, a young woman of a husband"
• [b]. Literally "also/even the two of them"