A verb for LYING WITH a woman that the scribes would not read aloud. At Deuteronomy 28:30 the written text has yishgalennah; the margin directs the reader to say yishkavennah, he will lie with her, from the ordinary verb shakhav. ⭐ The written verb stands in one verse of the Torah, and wherever it is written in the Bible — here, Isaiah 13:16, Jeremiah 3:2, Zechariah 14:2 (none yet on these pages) — the reader is directed to shakhav instead; the Talmud (Megillah 25b) is reported to list it among the words read euphemistically, a tradition noted and not verified beyond that reference. Its noun, shegal, is a king’s consort (Psalm 45:10, Nehemiah 2:6). ⚠ The shelf divides exactly at the seam: the KJV, ASV and Geneva read ‘lie with her’, the Douay ‘sleep with her’, the RV 1909 and RV60 «dormirá con ella» — the read word; the NIV and NWT 1984 read ‘rape her’, the NVI and TNM 2019 «la violará», the TNM 1987 «la forzará» — the written word’s violence. This translation prints what is read and keeps what is written in the note. → first discussed at Deut 28:30