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 someone's cow or sheep wandering around, don't just ignore it. Make sure you take it back to its owner.
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 its owner doesn't live near you, or if you don't know who it is, take the animal home with you and keep it until the owner comes looking, then you can return it.
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.
Do the same for whatever else you find that someone has lost—a donkey, a cloak, anything. Don't just 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 someone's donkey or cow that has fallen down on the road, don't just ignore it. Help 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. Anyone who does this offends 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 happen to find a bird's nest with chicks or eggs, whether it's in a tree or on the ground beside the road, and the mother is sitting on the chicks or eggs, don't take the mother 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 make sure you let the mother go, so that you will do well and have a good long life.
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.
When you build a new house, be sure to install a railing around your roof, so that you won't be held guilty if someone dies falling 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.
Don't plant your vineyard with another kind of crop. Otherwise everything you produce—the crop you planted and the fruit of your vineyard—must be dedicated to the Lord.
10 Do not do your ploughing with an ox and an ass yoked together.
Don't harness an ox and a donkey together when you plow.
11 Do not have clothing made of two sorts of thread, wool and linen together.
Don't wear clothes made 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.
Put tassels on the hem of the cloak you use to cover yourself.
13 If any man takes a wife, and having had connection with her, has no delight in her,
If a man marries a woman and sleeps with her, but ends up hating 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 accuses her of being immoral, giving her a bad name, saying, “I married this woman and slept with her, but I found out she wasn't 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:
The woman's parents are to bring the proof of her virginity to the elders at the town 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 the father will explain to them, “I gave my daughter in marriage to this man, but he has ended up hating 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.
Now he has accused her of being immoral, saying, ‘I found out that your daughter wasn't a virgin.’ But here's the proof of her virginity.” The parents shall spread out the sheet in front of the town 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 shall also fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give the money to the young woman's father, because this man has given an Israelite virgin a bad name. She is to remain his wife; he is not allowed to 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,
But if the accusation is true, and there's no proof of the woman's virginity,
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 is to be taken to the door of her father's house, and there the men of her town are to stone her to death. She has done something disgraceful in Israel by acting immorally in her father's house. You must eliminate 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 sleeping with someone else's wife, both the man and the woman must die. You must eliminate 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 a man meets a girl, a virgin engaged to another man, and sleeps with her there in the town,
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.
then you must take both of them to the town gate and stone them to death. The young woman is guilty because she did not cry out for help in the town, and the man is guilty because he has brought shame on someone else's fiancée. You must eliminate 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;
However, if the man happens to meet a woman who is engaged out in the countryside, and he attacks her and rapes her, only the man has to 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:
Don't do anything to the woman, because she has not committed a sin punishable by death. (This is the same kind of situation as when a man attacks someone else and murders them.)
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 the man raped the woman who was engaged out in the countryside, she shouted out, but there wasn't anyone there to rescue 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 happens to meet a virgin who is not engaged, and he grabs her and rapes her, and someone sees them,
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.
the man must pay the woman's father fifty shekels of silver, and he must marry her because he has brought shame on her. He is not allowed to 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 must not marry his father's wife, so that he won't bring shame on his father.
