"Grape" is Punished by Death: Deuteronomy 22:25, which states that if a man forces a betrothed woman to lie with him in the country, "only the man who lay with her shall die". The text explicitly describes the woman crying out and the act being forced, establishing it as a capital offense where the victim is innocent.
Consensual Premarital Acts: This is contrasted with the subsequent verses (Deuteronomy 22:28-29), which describe a man "seizing" a virgin who is not betrothed and lying with her. This passage does not use the terminology of "forcing" or "crying out" found in the previous verses.
Interpreting the second passage as rape is not justified or reasonable. The former verse speaks of a forced encounter which is punished with death. The latter verse refers to consensual premarital sex, where the requirement to marry is a consequence of that consensual act, not a punishment for a victim.
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