Deuteronomii 22
1 Non videbis bovem fratris tui, aut ovem errantem, et præteribis: sed reduces fratri tuo,
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 etiamsi non est propinquus frater tuus, nec nosti eum: duces in domum tuam, et erunt apud te quamdiu quærat ea frater tuus, et recipiat.
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 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 for whatever else you find that someone has lost—a donkey, a cloak, anything. Don't just ignore it.
4 Si videris asinum fratris tui aut bovem cecidisse in via, non despicies, sed sublevabis cum eo.
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 Non induetur mulier veste virili, nec vir utetur veste feminea: abominabilis enim apud Deum est qui facit hæc.
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 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 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 sed abire patieris, captos tenens filios: ut bene sit tibi, et longo vivas tempore.
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 Cum ædificaveris domum novam, facies murum tecti per circuitum: ne effundatur sanguis in domo tua, et sis reus labente alio, et in præceps ruente.
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 Non seres vineam tuam altero semine: ne et sementis quam sevisti, et quæ nascuntur ex vinea, pariter sanctificentur.
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 Non arabis in bove simul et asino.
Don't harness an ox and a donkey together when you plow.
11 Non indueris vestimento, quod ex lana linoque contextum est.
Don't wear clothes made of wool and linen woven together.
12 Funiculos in fimbriis facies per quatuor angulos pallii tui, quo operieris.
Put tassels on the hem of the cloak you use to cover yourself.
13 Si duxerit vir uxorem, et postea odio habuerit eam,
If a man marries a woman and sleeps with her, but ends up hating her,
14 quæsieritque occasiones quibus dimittat eam, objiciens ei nomen pessimum, et dixerit: Uxorem hanc accepi, et ingressus ad eam non inveni virginem:
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 tollent eam pater et mater ejus, et ferent secum signa virginitatis ejus ad seniores urbis qui in porta sunt:
The woman's parents are to bring the proof of her virginity to the elders at the town gate,
16 et dicet pater: Filiam meam dedi huic uxorem: quam quia odit,
and the father will explain to them, “I gave my daughter in marriage to this man, but he has ended up hating 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:
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 apprehendentque senes urbis illius virum, et verberabunt illum,
Then the elders of that city shall take the man and punish him.
19 condemnantes insuper centum siclis argenti, quos dabit patri puellæ, quoniam diffamavit nomen pessimum super virginem Israël: habebitque eam uxorem, et non poterit dimittere eam omnibus diebus vitæ suæ.
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 Quod si verum est quod objicit, et non est in puella inventa virginitas,
But if the accusation is true, and there's no proof of the woman's virginity,
21 ejicient eam extra fores domus patris sui, et lapidibus obruent viri civitatis illius, et morietur: quoniam fecit nefas in Israël, ut fornicaretur in domo patris sui: et auferes malum de medio tui.
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 Si dormierit vir cum uxore alterius, uterque morietur, id est, adulter et adultera: et auferes malum de Israël.
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 Si puellam virginem desponderit vir, et invenerit eam aliquis in civitate, et concubuerit cum ea,
If a man meets a girl, a virgin engaged to another man, and sleeps with her there in the town,
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 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 Sin autem in agro repererit vir puellam, quæ desponsata est, et apprehendens concubuerit cum ea, ipse morietur solus:
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 puella nihil patietur, nec est rea mortis: quoniam sicut latro consurgit contra fratrem suum, et occidit animam ejus, ita et puella perpessa est.
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 Sola erat in agro: clamavit, et nullus affuit qui liberaret eam.
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 Si invenerit vir puellam virginem, quæ non habet sponsum, et apprehendens concubuerit cum illa, et res ad judicium venerit:
If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not engaged, and he grabs her and rapes her, and someone sees them,
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.
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 Non accipiet homo uxorem patris sui, nec revelabit operimentum ejus.
A man must not marry his father's wife, so that he won't bring shame on his father.
