Deuteronomy 22:28
KJV
If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;
NIV
If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered,
In these modern versions, v.29 would imply that God’s law forced a woman to marry her rapist- an abominable conclusion entirely foreign to God and holy scripture. The KJV avoids this by distinguishing the crime of rape (explicitly marked by “force her” in v.25-26, where the rapist is treated as a murderer and stoned to death) from the consensual situation here in v.28. The phrase “lay hold upon her” elsewhere in the KJV suggests mutual consent- see Prov. 3:18. The phrase “force her” is consistently used in the KJV to describe rape: see Deut. 22:25, 2 Sam. 13:12-14,32, Jdg. 20:5, Est. 7:8.
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