Deuteronomy 22

¹You shall not see your brother’s ox or his sheep going astray and ignore them. You shall take them back to your brother .

²And if he does not live near you and you do not know who he is, you shall bring it home to your house , and it shall stay with you until your brother seeks it. Then you shall restore it to him .

³And you shall do the same with his donkey or with his garment , or with any lost thing of your brother’s , which he loses and you find ; you may not ignore it.

⁴You shall not see your brother’s donkey or his ox fallen down by the way and ignore them. You shall help him to lift them up again .

⁵A woman shall not wear a man’s garment , nor shall a man put on a woman’s cloak , for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord your God .

⁶If you come across 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 .

⁷You shall let the mother go , but the young you may take for yourself, that it may go well with you, and that you may live long .

⁸When you build a new house , you shall make a parapet for your roof , that you may not bring the guilt of blood upon your house , if anyone should fall from it.

⁹You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed , lest the whole yield be forfeited , the crop that you have sown and the yield of the vineyard .

¹⁰You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together .

¹¹You shall not wear cloth of wool and linen mixed together .

¹²You shall make yourself tassels on the four corners of the garment with which you cover yourself .

¹³If any man takes a wife and goes in to her and then hates her

¹⁴and accuses her of misconduct and brings a bad name upon her, saying , I took this woman , and when I came near her, I did not find in her evidence of virginity ,

¹⁵then the father of the young woman and her mother shall take and bring out the evidence of her virginity to the elders of the city in the gate .

¹⁶And the father of the young woman shall say to the elders , I gave my daughter to this man to marry , and he hates her;

¹⁷and behold , he has accused her of misconduct , saying , I did not find in your daughter evidence of virginity . And yet this is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity . And they shall spread the cloak before the elders of the city .

¹⁸Then the elders of that city shall take the man and whip him,

¹⁹and they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the father of the young woman , because he has brought a bad name upon a virgin of Israel . And she shall be his wife . He may not divorce her all his days .

²⁰But if the thing is true , that evidence of virginity was not found in the young woman ,

²¹then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of her father’s house , and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones , because she has done an outrageous thing in Israel by whoring in her father’s house . So you shall purge the evil from your midst .

²²If a man is found lying with the wife of another man , both of them shall die , the man who lay with the woman , and the woman . So you shall purge the evil from Israel .

²³If there is a betrothed virgin , and a man meets her in the city and lies with her,

²⁴then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city , and you shall stone them to death with stones , the young woman because she did not cry for help though she was in the city , and the man because he violated his neighbor’s wife . So you shall purge the evil from your midst .

²⁵But if in the open country a man meets a young woman who is betrothed , and the man seizes her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die .

²⁶But you shall do nothing to the young woman ; she has committed no offense punishable by death . For this case is like that of a man attacking and murdering his neighbor ,

²⁷because he met her in the open country , and though the betrothed young woman cried for help there was no one to rescue her.

²⁸If a man meets a virgin who is not betrothed , and seizes her and lies with her, and they are found ,

²⁹then the man who lay with her shall give to the father of the young woman fifty shekels of silver , and she shall be his wife , because he has violated her . He may not divorce her all his days .

³⁰A man shall not take his father’s wife , so that he does not uncover his father’s nakedness .