Deuteronomy 22

1 If you see your brother's ox or his sheep wandering, do not go by without helping, but take them back to your brother.

If you see your brother’s ox or sheep straying, you must not ignore it; be sure to return it to your brother.

2 If their owner is not near, or if you are not certain who he is, then take the beast to your house and keep it till its owner comes in search of it, and then you are to give it back to him.

If your brother does not live near you, or if you do not know who he is, you are to take the animal home to remain with you until your brother comes seeking it; then you can return it to him.

3 Do the same with his ass or his robe or anything which has gone from your brother's keeping and which you have come across: do not keep it to yourself.

And you shall do the same for his donkey, his cloak, or anything your brother has lost and you have found. You must not ignore it.

4 If you see your brother's ox or his ass falling down on the road, do not go by without giving him help in lifting it up again.

If you see your brother’s donkey or ox fallen on the road, you must not ignore it; you must help him lift it up.

5 It is not right for a woman to be dressed in man's clothing, or for a man to put on a woman's robe: whoever does such things is disgusting to the Lord your God.

A woman must not wear men’s clothing, and a man must not wear women’s clothing, for whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD your God.

6 If by chance you see a place which a bird has made for itself in a tree or on the earth, with young ones or eggs, and the mother bird seated on the young ones or on the eggs, do not take the mother bird with the young:

If you come across a bird’s nest with chicks or eggs, either in a tree or on the ground along the road, and the mother is sitting on the chicks or eggs, you must not take the mother along with the young.

7 See that you let the mother bird go, but the young ones you may take; so it will be well for you and your life will be long.

You may take the young, but be sure to let the mother go, so that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days.

8 If you are building a house, make a railing for the roof, so that the blood of any man falling from it will not come on your house.

If you build a new house, you are to construct a railing around your roof, so that you do not bring bloodguilt on your house if someone falls from it.

9 Do not have your vine-garden planted with two sorts of seed: or all of it may become a loss, the seed you have put in as well as the increase.

Do not plant your vineyard with two types of seed; if you do, the entire harvest will be defiled —both the crop you plant and the fruit of your vineyard.

10 Do not do your ploughing with an ox and an ass yoked together.

Do not plow with an ox and a donkey yoked together.

11 Do not have clothing made of two sorts of thread, wool and linen together.

Do not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together.

12 On the four edges of your robe, with which your body is covered, put ornaments of twisted threads.

You are to make tassels on the four corners of the cloak you wear.

13 If any man takes a wife, and having had connection with her, has no delight in her,

Suppose a man marries a woman, has relations with her, and comes to hate her,

14 And says evil things about her and gives her a bad name, saying, I took this woman, and when I had connection with her it was clear to me that she was not a virgin:

and he then accuses her of shameful conduct and gives her a bad name, saying, “I married this woman and had relations with her, but I discovered she was not a virgin.”

15 Then let the girl's father and mother put before the responsible men of the town, in the public place, signs that the girl was a virgin:

Then the young woman’s father and mother shall bring the proof of her virginity to the city elders at the gate

16 And let the girl's father say to the responsible men, I gave my daughter to this man for his wife, but he has no love for her;

and say to the elders, “I gave my daughter in marriage to this man, but he has come to hate her.

17 And now he has put shame on her, saying that she is not a virgin; but here is the sign that she is a virgin. Then they are to put her clothing before the responsible men of the town.

And now he has accused her of shameful conduct, saying, ‘I discovered that your daughter was not a virgin.’ But here is the proof of her virginity.” And they shall spread out the cloth before the city elders.

18 Then the responsible men of the town are to give the man his punishment;

Then the elders of that city shall take the man and punish him.

19 They will take from him a hundred shekels of silver, which are to be given to the father of the girl, because he has given an evil name to a virgin of Israel: she will go on being his wife, he may never put her away all his life.

They are also to fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the young woman’s father, because this man has given a virgin of Israel a bad name. And she shall remain his wife; he must not divorce her as long as he lives.

20 But if what he has said is true, and she is seen to be not a virgin,

If, however, this accusation is true, and no proof of the young woman’s virginity can be found,

21 Then they are to make the girl come to the door of her father's house and she will be stoned to death by the men of the town, because she has done evil and put shame on Israel, by acting as a loose woman in her father's house: so you are to put away evil from among you.

she shall be brought to the door of her father’s house, and there the men of her city will stone her to death. For she has committed an outrage in Israel by being promiscuous in her father’s house. So you must purge the evil from among you.

22 If a man is taken in the act of going in to a married woman, the two of them, the man as well as the woman, are to be put to death: so you are to put away the evil from Israel.

If a man is found lying with another man’s wife, both the man who slept with her and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.

23 If a young virgin has given her word to be married to a man, and another man meeting her in the town, has connection with her;

If there is a virgin pledged in marriage to a man, and another man encounters her in the city and sleeps with her,

24 Then you are to take the two of them to the doorway of the town, and have them stoned to death; the young virgin, because she gave no cry for help, though it was in the town, and the man, because he has put shame on his neighbour's wife: so you are to put away evil from among you.

you must take both of them out to the gate of that city and stone them to death—the young woman because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he has violated his neighbor’s wife. So you must purge the evil from among you.

25 But if the man, meeting such a virgin in the open country, takes her by force, then only the man is to be put to death;

But if the man encounters a betrothed woman in the open country, and he overpowers her and lies with her, only the man who has done this must die.

26 Nothing is to be done to the virgin, because there is no cause of death in her: it is the same as if a man made an attack on his neighbour and put him to death:

Do nothing to the young woman, because she has committed no sin worthy of death. This case is just like one in which a man attacks his neighbor and murders him.

27 For he came across her in the open country, and there was no one to come to the help of the virgin in answer to her cry.

When he found her in the field, the betrothed woman cried out, but there was no one to save her.

28 If a man sees a young virgin, who has not given her word to be married to anyone, and he takes her by force and has connection with her, and discovery is made of it;

If a man encounters a virgin who is not pledged in marriage, and he seizes her and lies with her, and they are discovered,

29 Then the man will have to give the virgin's father fifty shekels of silver and make her his wife, because he has put shame on her; he may never put her away all his life.

then the man who lay with her must pay the young woman’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she must become his wife because he has violated her. He must not divorce her as long as he lives.

30 A man may not take his father's wife or have sex relations with a woman who is his father's.

A man is not to marry his father’s wife, so that he will not dishonor his father’s marriage bed.