Deuteronomy 22

1 If you see someone's cow or sheep wandering around, don't just ignore it. Make sure you take it back to its owner.

When you see the calf of your brother or his sheep wandering in the way, you shall not overlook them; you shall by all means turn them back to your brother, and you shall restore them to him.

2 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.

And if your brother do not come near you, and you do not know him, you shall bring it into your house within; and it shall be with you until your brother shall seek them, and you shall restore them to him.

3 Do the same for whatever else you find that someone has lost—a donkey, a cloak, anything. Don't just ignore it.

Thus shall you do to his ass, and thus shall you do to his garment, and thus shall you do to every thing that your brother has lost; whatever shall have been lost by him, and you shall have found, you shall not have power to overlook.

4 If you see someone's donkey or cow that has fallen down on the road, don't just ignore it. Help lift it up.

You shall not see the ass of your brother, or his calf, fallen in the way: you shall not overlook them, you shall surely help him to raise them up.

5 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.

The apparel of a man shall not be on a woman, neither shall a man put on a woman's dress; for every one that does these things is an abomination to the Lord your God.

6 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.

And if you should come upon a brood of birds before your face in the way or upon any tree, or upon the earth, young or eggs, and the mother be brooding on the young or the eggs, you shall not take the dam with the young ones.

7 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.

You shall by all means let the mother go, but you shall take the young to yourself; that it may be well with you, and that you may live long.

8 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.

If you should build a new house, then shall you make a parapet to your house; so you shall not bring blood-guiltiness upon your house, if one should in any wise fall from it.

9 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.

You shall not sow your vineyard with diverse seed, lest the fruit be devoted, and whatever seed you may sow, with the fruit of your vineyard.

10 Don't harness an ox and a donkey together when you plow.

You shall not plough with an ox and an ass together.

11 Don't wear clothes made of wool and linen woven together.

You shall not wear a mingled [garment], woollen and linen together.

12 Put tassels on the hem of the cloak you use to cover yourself.

You shall make fringes on the four borders of your garments, with which soever you may be clothed.

13 If a man marries a woman and sleeps with her, but ends up hating her,

And if any one should take a wife, and dwell with her, and hate her,

14 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.”

and attach to her reproachful words, and bring against her an evil name, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her I found not her tokens of virginity:

15 The woman's parents are to bring the proof of her virginity to the elders at the town gate,

then the father and the mother of the damsel shall take and bring out the damsel's tokens of virginity to the elders of the city to the gate.

16 and the father will explain to them, “I gave my daughter in marriage to this man, but he has ended up hating her.

And the father of the damsel shall say to the elders, I gave this my daughter to this man for a wife;

17 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.

and now he has hated her, and attaches reproachful words to her, saying, I have not found tokens of virginity with your daughter; and these [are] the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall unfold the garment before the elders of the city.

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

And the elders of that city shall take that man, and shall chastise him,

19 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.

and shall fine him a hundred shekels, and shall give [them] to the father of the damsel, because he has brought forth an evil name against a virgin of Israel; and she shall be his wife: he shall never be able to put her away.

20 But if the accusation is true, and there's no proof of the woman's virginity,

But if this report be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel;

21 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.

then shall they bring out the damsel to the doors of her father's house, and shall stone her with stones, and she shall die; because she has wrought folly amongst the children of Israel, to defile the house of her father by whoring: so you shall remove the evil one from amongst you.

22 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.

And if a man be found lying with a woman married to a man, you shall kill them both, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shall you remove the wicked one out of Israel.

23 If a man meets a girl, a virgin engaged to another man, and sleeps with her there in the town,

And if there be a young damsel espoused to a man, and a man should have found her in the city and have lain with her;

24 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.

you shall bring them both out to the gate of their city, and they shall be stoned with stones, and they shall die; the damsel, because she cried not in the city; and the man, because he humbled his neighbour's spouse: so shall you remove the evil one from yourselves.

25 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.

But if a man find in the field a damsel that is betrothed, and he should force her and lie with her, you shall kill the man that lay with her only.

26 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.)

And the damsel has not [committed] a sin worthy of death; as if a man should rise up against his neighbour, and kill him, so [is] this thing;

27 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.

because he found her in the field; the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to help her.

28 If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not engaged, and he grabs her and rapes her, and someone sees them,

And if any one should find a young virgin who has not been betrothed, and should force [her] and lie with her, and be found,

29 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.

the man who lay with her shall give to the father of the damsel fifty silver didrachmas, and she shall be his wife, because he has humbled her; he shall never be able to put her away.

30 A man must not marry his father's wife, so that he won't bring shame on his father.

A man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover his father's skirt.