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Sifrei Devarim 241/ספרי דברים רמ״א
א(דברים כב כב) כִּי יִמָּצֵא אִישׁ – בְּעֵדִים. שֹׁכֵב עִם אִשָּׁה – כָּל שְׁכִיבָה. בְעֻלַת בַּעַל, לְהָבִיא אֶת שֶׁנִּבְעֲלָה בְּבֵית אָבִיהָ וַעֲדַיִן הִיא אֲרוּסָה.
1Pisqa’ 2411971. “If a man is found” (Dt. 22:22)—as reported by witnesses.“Bedding a married woman” (Dt. 22:22)—that is, any kind of bedding.“Married” (Dt. 22:22)—to include a woman who was already mountedin her father’s house, while still betrothed.
בוּמֵתוּ – בִּסְתָם מִיתָה הָאֲמוּרָה בַּתּוֹרָה, בְּחֶנֶק.
2“Then, indeed both of them shall die” (Dt. 22:22)—where the mode of execution mandated by the Torah is unspecified,the sentence is assumed to be strangulation.198 155.1.
גשְׁנֵיהֶם, וְלֹא הָעוֹשִׂים מַעֲשֵׂה הִירוֹדָס,
3“Both of them” (Dt. 22:22)—but not if they are engaged in the Deed of Herod,199; i.e. necrophilia. RH’s test has: ma` aseh khidudim. rendered by Jastrow as “unnatural gratification.” The reference is explained at B.BB.3b according to a tradition that Herod had his Hasmonean wife embalmed in honey and preserved for his own sexual needs.[which requires that the female partner already have died].200
דכְּשֶׁהוּא אוֹמֵר גַּם שְׁנֵיהֶם לְרַבּוֹת הַבָּאִים מֵאַחֲרֵיהֶם.
4When He says:“Both of them (Dt. 22:22)—this includes anyone who happens along after them[and also beds the woman].
ההָאִישׁ הַשֹּׁכֵב עִם הָאִשָּׁה, וְאַף עַל פִּי שֶׁהִיא קְטַנָּה.
5“The man who beds the woman” (Dt. 22:22)—even if she is still a minor.
ווְהָאִשָּׁה, אַף עַל פִּי שֶׁנִּבְעֲלָה לְקָטָן.
6“And the woman” (Dt. 22:22)—even though she was mounted by a minor.
זוּבִעַרְתָּ הָרָע, בַּעֵר עוֹשֵׂי הָרָעוֹת מִיִּשְׂרָאֵל!
7“And you shall expunge the evil from Israel” (Dt. 22:22)—expunge evil-doers from Israel.201 155.1, 240.1, 241.1, 242.1.