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Deuteronomy 22:24

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then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones; the lady, because she didn’t cry, being in the city; and the man, because he has humbled his neighbor’s wife. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

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Verse 24. Wife. After the woman was espoused, (verse 23,) she was called a wife, and punished accordingly, if she proved unfaithful.

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