Deuteronomy 22
1WHEN thou seest thy brother’s ox or sheep going astray, thou must not overlook them. Thou shalt surely bring them back to thy brother, and restore them to him.
2And if thy brother be not near thee, and thou dost not know him; thou shalt take them home to thy house; and they shall be with thee, until thy brother seek them; then thou shalt restore them to thy brother.
3In like manner thou shalt do with his ass, and in like manner with his raiment, and in like manner with everything which thy brother hath lost. Whatever hath been lost by him, if thou find it thou must not overlook it.
4When thou seest thy brother’s ass, or his ox, fallen in the way, thou must not overlook them; thou shalt help him to lift them up.
5A woman shall not wear what appertaineth to man, nor shall a man put on a woman’s garment; for everyone who doth such things is an abomination to the Lord thy God.
6if there chance to be before thee in the way, either in a tree, or on the ground, a bird’s nest, with young or eggs; and the dam be sitting on the young, or on the eggs; thou shalt not take the dam with the young.
7Thou shalt let the dam go; but thou mayst take the young for thyself; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayst prolong thy days.
8When thou buildest a new house, thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou mayst not occasion death by thy house, by anyone’s falling from it.
9Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard, when the product of it is consecrated, with seed of another kind, that the seed which thou sowest may not be consecrated, with the product of thy vineyard.
10Thou shalt not plough with an ox and an ass together.
11Thou shalt not wear, without scouring, a garment of wool and flax in the same piece.
12Thou shalt make bunches of ribbons on the four tufts of the mantles with which thou clothest thyself.
13If any man take a wife, and cohabit with her, and hate her,
14and spread groundless reports concerning her, and give her an ill-name, and say, I took this woman to wife, but when I came to her, I did not find her tokens of virginity; thereupon the father and mother of the damsel taking the tokens of their child’s virginity,
15shall carry them to the senate, to the gate.
16And the father of the girl shall say to the senate, I gave this my daughter to that man for a wife; but he now hateth her,
17and hath spread groundless reports concerning her, saying, I found not the tokens of virginity in thy daughter. Now these are the proofs of my daughter’s virginity. And they shall spread the garment before the senate of the city.
18Whereupon the senate of the city shall take the man, and chastise him,
19and fine him a hundred shekels, and give them to the father of the young woman, because he brought an ill-name on a virgin of Israel; and she shall be his wife. He shall not be at liberty to put her away all his days.
20But if his accusation be founded in truth, and proofs of virginity cannot be found for the young woman,
21they shall carry out the young woman to the doors of her father’s house, and stone her with stones, till she die, because she hath committed folly in Israel, by making her father’s house a place of prostitution. So thou shalt remove evil from among you.
22If a man be found lying with a woman who is married, you shall put them both to death; both the man who lay with the woman, and the woman. So shalt thou take away evil from Israel.
23If a virgin be betrothed to a husband; and a man find her in a city, and lie with her,
24you shall bring them both out to the gate of the city, and stone them with stones, till they die—the young woman, because she did not cry aloud in the city, and the man because he humbled the wife of his neighbour. So thou shalt remove evil from among you.
25But if the man found the woman who was betrothed, in the field, and by force lay with her, you shall put him only to death who lay with her.
26The young woman is not guilty of death. As when a man hath risen up against his neighbour, and killed him, even so is this matter,
27for he found her in the field. The young woman who was betrothed cried aloud, but there was none to help her.
28If any man find a young woman, who is not betrothed, and by force lie with her, and be found,
29the man who hath lain with her shall pay the father of the young woman fifty didrachms of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he shall not be at liberty to put her away, all the days of his life.
30A man shall not take his father’s wife, nor uncover his father’s skirt.