Deuteronomy 22

1 “You will not see the ox of your brother or his sheep driven away, and hide yourself from them, you will certainly turn them back to your brother. 2 And if your brother is not near to you, and you do not know him, then you will remove it to the middle of your house, and it will be with you until your brother seeks it, and you will give it back to him. 3 And so you will do to his donkey, and so you will do to his garment, and so you will do to any lost thing of your brother’s, which is lost by him, and you have found it. You will not be able to hide yourself. 4 You will not see the donkey of your brother, or his ox, falling in the way, and hide yourself from them. You will certainly raise them up for him. 5 Anything of a man will not be on a woman, nor will a man put on the garment of a woman, for anyone doing these will be an abomination to your God YHWH. 6 When a bird’s nest comes before you in the way, in any tree, or on the earth, with brood or eggs, and the mother is sitting on the brood or on the eggs, you will not take the mother with the young ones. 7 you will certainly send the mother away, and take the young ones for yourself, so that it will be well with you and you have prolonged days. 8 When you build a new house, then you will make a parapet for your roof, and you will not put blood on your house when one falls from it. 9 You will not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the fullness of the seed which you sow and the increase of the vineyard be separated. 10 You will not plow with an ox and with a donkey together. 11 You will not put on mixed material, wool and linens together. 12 You will make fringes for yourself on the four skirts of your covering with which you cover yourself. 13 When a man takes a wife, and has gone in to her, and hates her, 14 and lays evil deeds of words against her, and brings out an evil name against her, and says, I have taken this woman, and I drew near to her, and I have not found [proofs|?proof of virginity in her. 15 Then the father of the girl, and her mother, will take and bring out the girl’s proofs of virginity to the elderly of the city in the gate, 16 and the father of the girl will say to the elderly, I have given my daughter to this man for a wife, and he hates her. 17 And look, he has laid evil deeds of words, saying, I have not found proofs of virginity for your daughter—and these are the proofs of virginity of my daughter! And they will spread out the garment before the elderly of the city. 18 And the elderly of that city will take the man, and discipline him, 19 and fine him 100 pieces of silver, and give them to the father of the girl, because he has brought out an evil name on a virgin of Israel. And she will be to him for a wife—he will not be able to send her away for all his days. 20 And if this thing has been truth—proofs of virginity has not been found for the girl— 21 then they will bring out the girl to the opening of her father’s house, and the men of her city will stone her with stones and she will die, for she has done folly in Israel, to go whoring in her father’s house. And you will put away evil out of your middle. 22 When a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then both of them will die—the man who is lying with the woman, and the woman. And you will put away evil out of Israel. 23 When there is a girl, a virgin, betrothed to a man, and a man has found her in a city and lain with her, 24 then you will bring them both out to the gate of that city, and stone them with stones, and they will die: the girl, because that she had not cried in a city. And the man, because that he has humbled his neighbor’s wife. And you will put away evil out of your middle. 25 And if the man finds the girl who is betrothed in a field, and the man has laid hold on her, and lain with her, then the man who has lain with her will die alone. 26 And you will not do anything to the girl—the girl has no deadly sin. For as a man rises against his neighbor and murders him, taking a life, so will be this thing. 27 For he found her in a field, and when she had cried—the girl who is betrothed—then she had no savior. 28 When a man finds a girl, a virgin who is not betrothed, and has caught her, and lain with her, and they have been found, 29 then the man who is lying with her will give 50 pieces of silver to the father of the girl, and she will be to him for a wife. Because that he has humbled her, he will not be able to send her away for all his days. 30 A man will not take his father’s wife, nor uncover his father’s skirt.”


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