Deuteronomy Chapter 22

Deuteronomy Chapter 22
1 Thou shalt not see thy brother’s ox nor
his sheep go astray, and withdraw
thyself from them, but shalt bring them
again unto thy brother. 2 And if thy
brother be not near unto thee, or if thou
know him not, then thou shalt bring it
into thine house, and it shall remain with
thee, until thy brother seek after it: then
shalt thou deliver it to him again.
3 In like manner shalt thou do with his
ass, and so shalt thou do with his
raiment, and shalt so do with all lost
things of thy brother, which he hath lost:
if thou hast found them, thou shalt not
withdraw thyself from them. 4 Thou
shalt not see thy brother’s ass nor his ox
fall down by the way, and withdraw
thyself from them, but shalt lift them up
with him. 5 The woman shall not wear
that which pertaineth unto the man,
neither shall a man put on woman’s
raiment: for all that do so, are
abomination unto the Lord thy God.
6 If thou find a bird’s nest in the way, in
any tree, or on the ground, whether they
be young or eggs, and the dam sitting
upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou
shalt not take the dam with the young,
7 But shalt in any wise let the dam go,
and take the young to thee, that thou
mayest prosper and prolong thy days.
8 When thou buildest a new house, thou
shalt make a battlement on thy roof, that
thou lay not blood upon thine house, if
any man fall thence. 9 Thou shalt not
sow thy vineyard with divers kinds of
seeds, lest thou defile the increase of the
seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit
of the vineyard. 10 Thou shalt not plow
with an ox and an ass together.
11 Thou shalt not wear a garment of
divers sorts, as of woolen and linen
together.
12 Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the
four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith
thou coverest thyself.
13 If a man take a wife, and when he
hath lain with her, hate her, 14 And lay
slanderous things unto her charge, and
bring up an evil name upon her, and say,
I took this wife, and when I came to her,
I found her not a maiden,
15 Then shall the father of the maiden
and her mother take and bring the signs
of the maiden’s virginity unto the elders
of the city to the gate. 16 And the
maiden’s father shall say unto the elders,
I gave my daughter unto this man to wife,
and he hateth her:
17 And lo, he layeth slanderous things
unto her charge, saying, I found not thy
daughter a maiden: lo, these are the
tokens of my daughter’s virginity: and
they shall spread the vesture before the
elders of the city.
18 Then the elders of the city shall take
that man and chastise him, 19 And shall
condemn him in an hundred shekels of
sliver, and give them unto the father of
the maiden, because he hath brought up
an evil name upon a maiden of Israel:
and she shall be his wife, and he may not
put her away all his life.
20 But if this thing be true, that the
maiden be not found a virgin, 21 Then
shall they bring forth the maiden to the
door of her father’s house, and the men
of her city shall stone her with stones to
death: for she hath wrought folly in
Israel, by playing the whore in her
father’s house: so thou shalt put evil
away from among you.
22 If a man be found lying with a woman
married to a man, then they shall die
even both twain: to wit, the man that lay
with the wife, and the wife: so thou shalt
put away evil from Israel.
23 If a maid be betrothed unto an
husband, and a man find her in the town
and lie with her,
24 Then shall ye bring them both out
unto the gates of the same city, and shall
stone them with stones to death: the
maiden because she cried not, being in
the city, and the man, because he hath
humbled his neighbor’s wife: so thou
shalt put away evil from among you.
25 But if a man find a betrothed maiden
in the field, and force her, and lie with
her, then the man that lay with her, shall
die alone:
26 And unto the maiden thou shalt do
nothing, because there is in the maiden
no cause of death: for as when a man
riseth against his neighbor and woundeth
him to death, so is this matter.
27 For he found her in the fields: the
betrothed maiden cried, and there was
no man to succor her.
28 If a man find a maiden that is not
betrothed, and take her, and lie with her,
and they be found,
29 Then the man that lay with her, shall
give unto the maiden’s father fifty
shekels of sliver: and she shall be his
wife, because he hath humbled her: he
cannot put her away all his life.
30 No man shall take his father’s wife,
nor shall uncover his father’s skirt.