Deuteronomii 22
1 Non videbis bovem fratris tui, aut ovem errantem, et præteribis: sed reduces fratri tuo,
If you see your brother's ox or his sheep wandering, do not go by without helping, but take them back to your brother.
2 etiam si non est propinquus frater tuus, nec nosti eum: duces in domum tuam, et erunt apud te quamdiu quærat ea frater tuus, et recipiat.
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.
3 Similiter facies de asino, et de vestimento, et de omni re fratris tui, quæ perierit: si inveneris eam, ne negligas quasi alienam.
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.
4 Si videris asinum fratris tui aut bovem cecidisse in via, non despicies, sed sublevabis cum eo.
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.
5 Non induetur mulier veste virili, nec vir utetur veste feminea: abominabilis enim apud Deum est qui facit hæc.
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.
6 Si ambulans per viam, in arbore vel in terra nidum avis inveneris, et matrem pullis vel ovis desuper incubantem: non tenebis eam cum filiis,
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:
7 sed abire patieris, captos tenens filios: ut bene sit tibi, et longo vivas tempore.
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.
8 Cum ædificaveris domum novam, facies murum tecti per circuitum: ne effundatur sanguis in domo tua, et sis reus labente alio, et in præceps ruente.
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.
9 Non seres vineam tuam altero semine: ne et sementis quam sevisti, et quæ nascuntur ex vinea, pariter sanctificentur.
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.
10 Non arabis in bove simul et asino.
Do not do your ploughing with an ox and an ass yoked together.
11 Non indueris vestimento, quod ex lana linoque contextum est.
Do not have clothing made of two sorts of thread, wool and linen together.
12 Funiculos in fimbriis facies per quattuor angulos pallii tui, quo operieris.
On the four edges of your robe, with which your body is covered, put ornaments of twisted threads.
13 Si duxerit vir uxorem, et postea odio habuerit eam,
If any man takes a wife, and having had connection with her, has no delight in her,
14 quæsieritque occasiones quibus dimittat eam, obiiciens ei nomen pessimum, et dixerit: Uxorem hanc accepi, et ingressus ad eam non inveni virginem:
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:
15 tollent eam pater et mater eius, et ferent secum signa virginitatis eius ad seniores urbis qui in porta sunt:
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:
16 et dicet pater: Filiam meam dedi huic uxorem: quam quia odit,
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;
17 imponit ei nomen pessimum, ut dicat: Non inveni filiam tuam virginem: et ecce hæc sunt signa virginitatis filiæ meæ. Expandent vestimentum coram senioribus civitatis:
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.
18 apprehendentque senes urbis illius virum, et verberabunt illum,
Then the responsible men of the town are to give the man his punishment;
19 condemnantes insuper centum siclis argenti, quos dabit patri puellæ, quoniam diffamavit nomen pessimum super virginem Israel: habebitque eam uxorem, et non poterit dimittere eam omnibus diebus vitæ suæ.
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.
20 Quod si verum est quod obiicit, et non est in puella inventa virginitas:
But if what he has said is true, and she is seen to be not a virgin,
21 eiicient eam extra fores domus patris sui, et lapidibus obruent viri civitatis illius, et morietur: quoniam fecit nefas in Israel, ut fornicaretur in domo patris sui: et auferes malum de medio tui.
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.
22 Si dormierit vir cum uxore alterius, uterque morietur, id est, adulter et adultera: et auferes malum de Israel.
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.
23 Si puellam virginem desponderit vir, et invenerit eam aliquis in civitate, et concubuerit cum ea,
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;
24 educes utrumque ad portam civitatis illius, et lapidibus obruentur: puella, quia non clamavit, cum esset in civitate: vir, quia humiliavit uxorem proximi sui. Et auferes malum de medio tui.
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.
25 Sin autem in agro repererit vir puellam, quæ desponsata est, et apprehendens concubuerit cum ea, ipse morietur solus:
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;
26 puella nihil patietur, nec est rea mortis: quoniam sicut latro consurgit contra fratrem suum, et occidit animam eius, ita et puella perpessa est.
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:
27 Sola erat in agro: clamavit, et nullus affuit qui liberaret eam.
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.
28 Si invenerit vir puellam virginem, quæ non habet sponsum, et apprehendens concubuerit cum illa, et res ad iudicium venerit:
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;
29 dabit qui dormivit cum ea, patri puellæ quinquaginta siclos argenti, et habebit eam uxorem, quia humiliavit illam: non poterit dimittere eam cunctis diebus vitæ suæ.
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.
30 Non accipiet homo uxorem patris sui, nec revelabit operimentum eius.
A man may not take his father's wife or have sex relations with a woman who is his father's.
