THE
BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY
Deuteronomy
Chapter 22
1
¶ If you see your brother’s ox or his sheep wandering
away, you must not ignore them: you shall take them back to your brother.
2
And if your brother is not near you, or if you do not know him, then you
shall take it to your own house, and it shall remain with you until your
brother comes looking for it, and you shall restore it to him.
3
And you shall do the same with his donkey; and with his garment; and with any
thing your brother has lost, that you have found: you must not ignore it.
4
You shall not see your brother’s donkey or his ox fallen down by the road, and
ignore them: you shall surely help him to lift them up again.
5
¶ A woman must not wear anything that pertains to a
man, nor shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all who do so are an
abomination to the LORD your God.
6
If you happen to come upon a bird’s nest in any tree, or on the ground, with
young ones, or eggs, and the mother sitting on the young, or on the eggs, you
shall not take the mother with the young:
7
But you shall surely let the mother bird go, and take only the young;
that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days.
8
When you build a new house, you must make a battlement on your roof, so that no
one may fall from there, and bring blood guilt on your house.
9
You shall not plant your vineyard with two kinds of seed: lest the fruit of the
seed which you have sown, and the fruit of your vineyard, be defiled.
10
You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.
11
You shall not wear a garment of mixed thread, such as wool and linen
together.
12
You shall make yourselves tassels on the four corners of your cloak, with which
you cover yourself.
13
¶ If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, and
hates her,
14
And charges her with shameful conduct, and gives her an evil reputation, and
says, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found that she was not a
virgin:
15
Then the father and mother of the young woman, shall
get and bring out the tokens of the girl’s virginity to the elders of
the city in the gate:
16
And the young woman’s father shall say to the elders, I gave my daughter to
this man as a wife, and he hates her;
17
And he has made shameful accusations against her, saying, I found that
your daughter was not a virgin; and yet these are the tokens of my
daughter’s virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the
city.
18
And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him;
19
And they shall fine him one hundred shekels of silver, and give them
to the father of the girl, because he has brought an evil name upon a virgin of
20
But if what he has said is true, and no evidence of
virginity is found for the girl:
21
Then they shall bring the girl out to the door of her father’s house, and the
men of her city shall stone her with stones so that she dies: because she has
wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father’s house: in that way
you shall put evil away from among you.
22
If a man is found lying with a woman who is married to a husband, then they
shall both die, both the man who lay with the woman, and the woman: in
that way you shall put away evil from Israel.
23
If a young woman who is a virgin is betrothed to a husband, and a man
finds her in the city, and lies with her;
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Then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall
stone them with stones so that they die; the woman, because she did not scream,
being in the city; and the man, because he humbled his neighbor’s wife:
in that way you shall put away evil from among you.
25
But if a man finds a betrothed woman in a field, and the man forces her, and
lies with her: then only the man who lies with her shall die:
26
You shall do nothing to the woman; there is in the woman no sin worthy
of death: for this case is the same as when a man rises against his neighbor,
and slays him:
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For he found her in the field, and the betrothed woman screamed, but there
was no one to save her.
28
If a man finds a young woman who is a virgin, who is not betrothed, and
lays hold on her, and lies with her, and they are found;
29
Then the man who lay with her shall give to the damsel’s father fifty shekels
of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he has humbled her, he may not
divorce her for as long as he lives.
30
A man shall not take his father’s widow, or uncover her who is his father’s.