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Hamdinger's Bible Lesson of the Day. Please turn to Deut 22:25->

"But if (it is) in the field the man finds the spoken-for girl and the man strongly-seizes her and lay with her, then he is to die, the man who lay with her, he alone. But to the girl you are not to do anything, the girl did not (incur) sin (deserving) of death, for just as (the case of) the man who rises up against his neighbor and murders his life, so is this matter:
for in the open-field he found her; when the spoken for girl cried out, there was no deliverer for her."

In other words, if some whore comes in from 'the field' and says, 'Hey, Billy Bob over there is the reason I ain't gots no cherry cuz he done boppity'd me in that there field", then Billy Bob gets knick-knack played on his head, and his head alone. I think the New Revised even translates this as something like the woman gets spared because she 'may have' called for help, not even implying that she definitely did.

And of course, there's the shotgun wedding bit where if the man 'seizes' an unspoken-for virgin and is caught, he's stuck with her for life and has to pay Pops 50 bucks(silver). I believe this is what happened to Frank Gifford.