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.

You shall not see your brother’s ox or his sheep go astray and hide yourself from them. You shall surely bring them again to your brother.

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.

If your brother isn’t near to you, or if you don’t know him, then you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall be with you until your brother comes looking for it, and you shall restore it 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.

So you shall do with his donkey. So you shall do with his garment. So you shall do with every lost thing of your brother’s, which he has lost and you have found. You may not hide yourself.

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 your brother’s donkey or his ox fallen down by the way, and hide yourself from them. You shall surely help him to lift them up again.

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.

A woman shall not wear men’s clothing, neither shall a man put on women’s clothing; for whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh 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.

If you come across a bird’s nest on the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the hen sitting on the young, or on the eggs, you shall not take the hen with the young.

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 surely let the hen go, but the young you may take for yourself, that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days.

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.

When you build a new house, then you shall make a railing around your roof, so that you don’t bring blood on your house if anyone falls from there.

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 two kinds of seed, lest all the fruit be defiled, the seed which you have sown, and the increase of the vineyard.

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

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

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

You shall not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together.

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

You shall make yourselves fringes on the four corners of your cloak with which you cover yourself.

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

If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, hates 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.”

accuses her of shameful things, gives her a bad name, and says, “I took this woman, and when I came near to her, I didn’t find in her the 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 young lady’s father and mother shall take and bring the tokens of the young lady’s virginity to the elders of the city in 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.

The young lady’s father shall tell the elders, “I gave my daughter to this man as his wife, and he hates her.

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.

Behold, he has accused her of shameful things, saying, ‘I didn’t find in your daughter the tokens of virginity;’ and yet these are the tokens of my daughter’s virginity.” They shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.

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

The elders of that city shall take the man and 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.

They shall fine him one hundred shekels of silver, and give them to the father of the young lady, because he has given a bad name to a virgin of Israel. She shall be his wife. He may not put her away all his days.

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

But if this thing is true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the young lady,

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 they shall bring out the young lady 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 folly in Israel, to play the prostitute in her father’s house. So you shall remove the evil from among 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.

If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both die, the man who lay with the woman and the woman. So you shall remove the evil from Israel.

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

If there is a young lady who is a virgin pledged to be married to a husband, and a man finds her in the city, and lies 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.

then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones; the lady, because she didn’t cry, being in the city; and the man, because he has humbled his neighbor’s wife. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

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 the man finds the lady who is pledged to be married in the field, and the man forces her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die;

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.)

but to the lady you shall do nothing. There is in the lady no sin worthy of death; for as when a man rises against his neighbor and kills him, even so is this matter;

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.

for he found her in the field, the pledged to be married lady cried, and there was no one to save 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,

If a man finds a lady who is a virgin, who is not pledged to be married, grabs her and lies with her, and they are 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.

then the man who lay with her shall give to the lady’s father fifty shekels of silver. She shall be his wife, because he has humbled her. He may not put her away all his days.

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.