Deuteronomy 22:24

וְהוֹצֵאתֶם אֶת־שְׁנֵיהֶם אֶל־שַׁעַר׀ הָעִיר הַהִוא וּסְקַלְתֶּם אֹתָם בָּאֲבָנִים וָמֵתוּ אֶת־הַֽנַּעֲרָה עַל־דְּבַר אֲשֶׁר לֹא־צָעֲקָה בָעִיר וְאֶת־הָאִישׁ עַל־דְּבַר אֲשֶׁר־עִנָּה אֶת־אֵשֶׁת רֵעֵהוּ וּבִֽעַרְתָּ הָרָע מִקִּרְבֶּֽךָ׃ ס

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Hebrew

וְהוֹצֵאתֶ֨ם אֶת־שְׁנֵיהֶ֜ם אֶל־שַׁ֣עַר׀ הָעִ֣יר הַהִ֗וא וּסְקַלְתֶּ֨ם אֹתָ֥ם בָּאֲבָנִים֮ וָמֵתוּ֒ אֶת־הַֽנַּעֲרָ֗ה עַל־דְּבַר֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר לֹא־צָעֲקָ֣ה בָעִ֔יר וְאֶ֨ת־הָאִ֔ישׁ עַל־דְּבַ֥ר אֲשֶׁר־עִנָּ֖ה אֶת־אֵ֣שֶׁת רֵעֵ֑הוּ וּבִֽעַרְתָּ֥ הָרָ֖ע מִקִּרְבֶּֽךָ׃ ס

Greek (Septuagint)

ἐξάξετε ἀμφοτέρους ἐπὶ τὴν πύλην τῆς πόλεως αὐτῶν, καὶ λιθοβοληθήσονται ἐν λίθοις καὶ ἀποθανοῦνται· τὴν νεᾶνιν, ὄτι οὐκ ἐβόησεν ἐν τῇ πόλει, καὶ τὸν ἄνθρωπον, ὅτι ἐταπείνωσεν τὴν γυναῖκα τοῦ πλησίον. καὶ ἐξαρεῖς τὸν πονηρὸν ἐξ ὑμῶν αὐτῶν.

Greek text from Swete's edition, CC BY-SA 4.0

Latin (Vulgate)

educes utrumque ad portam civitatis illius, et lapidibus obruentur: puella, quia non clamavit, cum esset in civitate: vir, quia humiliavit uxorem proximi sui: et auferes malum de medio tui.

Spanish

entonces los sacarán a ambos a la puerta de esa ciudad, y los apedrearán hasta que mueran; a la joven, por no haber gritado, estando en la ciudad; y al hombre, por haber humillado a la mujer de su prójimo. Así eliminarán el mal de entre ustedes.

Classic Spanish (Reina-Valera 1909)

Entonces los sacaréis á ambos á la puerta de aquella ciudad, y los apedrearéis con piedras, y morirán; la moza porque no dió voces en la ciudad, y el hombre porque humilló á la mujer de su prójimo: así quitarás el mal de en medio de ti.

English

you must take both of them out to the gate of that city and stone them to death — the young woman because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he has violated his neighbor ’s wife. So you must purge the evil from among you.

✦ What the text says

Summary

Deuteronomy 22:24 prescribes that both a young woman and a man be brought to the gate of the city and stoned to death, with the reasons stated separately for each: she did not cry out in the city, and he violated the wife of his neighbor. The verse closes with the instruction to remove the evil from the community.

Key words

ho.tze.Tem ("you will bring out", H3318H) — hiphil causative, sequential perfect, 2nd person plural: continues the narrative chain of legal actions ("you [all] shall bring out").
se.kal.Tem ("you will stone", H5619) — qal sequential perfect, plural: the second action in the sequence following the bringing-out.
tza.'a.Kah ("she cried for help", H6817) — qal perfect, 3rd feminine singular, negated by lo' ("not", H3808): describes a completed absence of action attributed to the young woman.
'i.Nah ("he has humiliated", H6031B) — piel (intensive) perfect, 3rd masculine singular: an intensive verb form describing the man's completed act against the woman.
vi.'ar.Ta ("you will remove", H1197I) — piel sequential perfect, 2nd masculine singular: shifts to singular address for the final instruction, intensive stem for "burning out/removing."

What the text says

The verse is built as a chain of sequential perfect verbs (ve-hotzetem, u-sekaltem, va-metu, u-vi'arta), a common syntactic feature in Hebrew legal-narrative style where each verb continues the consequence of the previous one, functioning like a series of "and then" clauses describing mandated procedure. The verbs hotzetem and sekaltem are plural, addressing the community collectively, while the final verb vi'arta shifts to singular address, addressing an individual (or the nation as a singular entity).

The two reasons given are structured in parallel using 'al-devar 'asher ("on the matter/thing that", H1697L + H0834A) — the same construct phrase introduces both clauses. For the young woman, the clause uses a negated qal perfect, lo'-tza'akah ("she did not cry out", H6817), describing an omission. For the man, the clause uses a piel perfect, 'inah ("he humiliated/violated", H6031B), an intensive stem verb describing his direct action toward 'eshet re'ehu ("the wife of his neighbor", H0802H + H7453), a construct chain identifying the woman as another man's wife. The final clause employs ha-ra' ("the evil", H7451B) with the preposition mi-kirbecha ("from your midst", H7130G + H9021), a construct + suffix phrase locating the evil geographically/socially within the community addressed in the singular.

Differences between versions

The LXX renders sha'ar ha-'ir ha-hiv' ("the gate of that city") more simply as τὴν πύλην τῆς πόλεως αὐτῶν ("the gate of their city"), using a possessive pronoun rather than the demonstrative "that." The Vulgate's cum esset in civitate ("while she was in the city") expands the Hebrew ba-'ir ("in the city", H5892B) into a temporal clause not explicitly marked as such in the Hebrew text. The LXX's closing phrase ἐξ ὑμῶν αὐτῶν ("from you yourselves," plural) contrasts with the Hebrew's singular suffix -cha in mi-kirbecha ("from your midst"), reflecting a shift in grammatical number between the two versions at this point.

This explanation describes the text using linguistic data; it adds no doctrine or confessional interpretation.