DEUTERONOMY 22

You shall not see your brother's ox or sheep driven off, and hide yourself from them; you must bring them back to your brother. 2 And if your brother is not near you, or if you do not know him, then you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall stay with you until your brother seeks it; then you shall restore it to him. 3 And you shall do so with his ass, and you shall do so with his clothing, and you shall do so with every lost thing of your brother, which he has lost and you have found; you shall not hide yourself. 4 You shall not see your brother's ass or ox fallen down in the road, and hide yourself from them; you must help him to lift them up.

5 A woman shall not adopt what belongs to a man, nor shall a man put on woman's clothing; for everyone who does these things is abhorrent to Yehowah your God.

6 If a bird's nest happens to be before you by the road, in any tree or on the ground, with nestlings or eggs and the mother sitting on the nestlings or the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young; 7 you must let the mother go, though you may take the young for yourselves; so that it may go well with you, and you may prolong your days.

8 When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof, so that you do not bring blood on your house by someone falling from it.

9 You shall not sow your vineyard with different kinds of seed, or else the harvest of the seed which you have sown and the produce of your vineyard will be forfeited.* 10 You shall not plough with an ox and an ass together. 11 You shall not wear clothing of different kinds of material, of wool and linen together. * lit holy, that is, devoted to Yehowah

12 You shall make for yourself tassels on the four corners of your cloak with which you cover yourself.

13 If a man takes a wife and goes in to her, and then hates her, 14 and slanders her and openly defames her by saying, I took this woman, but when I came to her I did not find the evidence of virginity in her; 15 then the young woman's father and mother shall take the evidence of the young woman's virginity and produce it to the elders of the city at the gateway. 16 And the young woman's father shall say to the elders, I gave my daughter to this man for a wife, and he hates her; 17 see how he has slandered her by saying, I did not find the evidence of virginity in your daughter; and yet this is the evidence of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city. 18 Then the elders of that city shall take the man and beat him; 19 and they shall fine him a hundred pieces of silver, and give them to the young woman's father, because he openly defamed a virgin of Israel; and she shall remain as his wife: he may never divorce her all his life. 20 But if the thing is true, and the evidence of virginity is not found for the young woman, 21 then they shall bring the young woman to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death, because she behaved wantonly in Israel by playing the prostitute in her father's house; so you shall purge this evil from your midst.

22 If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and also the woman; and you shall purge this evil from Israel.

23 If a young woman, a virgin, is betrothed to a man, and another man finds her in the city and lies with her, 24 then you shall bring them both to the gateway of that city, and stone them to death: the young woman because she did not cry out, although in the city, and the man because he humiliated his neighbor's wife; and you shall purge this evil from your midst.

25 But if a man finds a betrothed young woman in the fields, and the man seizes her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die. 26 But nothing shall be done to the young woman; in the young woman there is no offence punishable by death; for this matter is as when a man attacks his neighbour and kills him. 27 For he found her in the fields; though the betrothed young woman cried out, there was no one to save her.

28 If a man finds a young woman, a virgin who is not betrothed, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are found, 29 then the man who lay with her shall give fifty pieces of silver to the young woman's father, and she shall become his wife; because he humiliated her, he may never divorce her all his life.

30 A man shall not take his father's wife, nor withdraw his father's cloak from her.