Deuteronomy 22
1Thou
shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them again
unto thy brother.
2And if thy brother be not
nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it unto thine own house, and it shall be with thee until thy
brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore it to him again.
3In
like manner shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do with his raiment; and with all lost thing of thy brother's, which
he hath lost, and thou hast found, shalt thou do likewise: thou mayest not hide thyself.
4Thou shalt not see thy brother's ass or his ox fall down by the way, and hide thyself from them: thou
shalt surely help him to lift them up again.
5The
woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are
abomination unto the LORD thy God.
6If a bird's
nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting
upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young:
7But thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to thee; that it may be well with thee,
and that thou mayest prolong thy days.
8When
thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if
any man fall from thence.
9Thou shalt not
sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled.
10Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass
together.
11Thou shalt not wear a garment
of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together.
12Thou
shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself.
13If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,
14And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon
her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid:
15Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel's
virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate:
16And
the damsel's father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her;
17And, lo, he hath given occasions of speech against her, saying, I found
not thy daughter a maid; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the
elders of the city.
18And the elders of that
city shall take that man and chastise him;
19And
they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought
up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.
20But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for
the damsel:
21Then they shall bring out the
damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath
wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.
22If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they
shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.
23If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man
find her in the city, and lie with her;
24Then
ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because
she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife: so thou shalt put away evil from
among you.
25But if a man find a betrothed
damsel in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her: then the man only that lay with her shall die.
26But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no
sin worthy of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so is this matter:
27For he found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel cried, and there
was none to save her.
28If a man find a damsel
that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;
29Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty
shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.
30A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt.