'Engaged' in the Bible
And is there a man here who is engaged to a woman and has not yet married her? Let him go back home. Otherwise, he may die in battle and another man marry her.'
"If a man meets a young virgin lady in the city who is engaged to be married and has sexual relations with her,
then the two must be brought to the city gate and there they must be stoned to death the girl because she was in a city but did not cry out for help, and the man who abused a woman who was engaged to another man. By doing this you are to remove this evil from among you.
"If a man meets a girl in the country who is engaged to be married and then rapes her, the man alone the one who had sexual relations with her must die.
Since he found her in the country, the engaged girl may have cried out, but there was no one to rescue her.
"However, if a man meets a girl who isn't engaged to be married, and he seizes her, rapes her, and is later found out,
"You'll be engaged to a woman, but another man will rape her. You'll build a house, but you won't live in it. You'll plant a vineyard, but you won't harvest it.