Deuteronomy, 22

1. 'If you see your brother's ox or one of his sheep straying, you must not disregard it: you must take it back to your brother.

1. "You shall not see your brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and withhold your help from them; you shall take them back to your brother.

2. And if he is not close at hand or you do not know who he is, you must take it home with you and keep it by you until your brother comes to look for it; you will then return it to him.

2. And if he is not near you, or if you do not know him, you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall be with you until your brother seeks it; then you shall restore it to him.

3. 'You must do the same with his donkey, the same with his cloak, the same with anything that your brother loses and that you find; you must not disregard it.

3. And so you shall do with his ass; so you shall do with his garment; so you shall do with any lost thing of your brother's, which he loses and you find; you may not withhold your help.

4. 'If you see your brother's donkey or ox fall over on the road, you must not disregard it, but must help your brother get it on its feet again.

4. You shall not see your brother's ass or his ox fallen down by the way, and withhold your help from them; you shall help him to lift them up again.

5. 'A woman must not dress like a man, nor a man like a woman; anyone who does this is detestable to Yahweh your God.

5. "A woman shall not wear anything that pertains to a man, nor shall a man put on a woman's garment; for whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD your God.

6. 'If, when out walking, you come across a bird's nest, in a tree or on the ground, with chicks or eggs and the mother bird sitting on the chicks or the eggs, you must not take the mother as well as the chicks.

6. "If you chance to come upon a bird's nest, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs and the mother sitting upon the young or upon the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young;

7. Let the mother go; the young you may take for yourself. Thus will you have prosperity and long life.

7. you shall let the mother go, but the young you may take to yourself; that it may go well with you, and that you may live long.

8. 'When you build a new house, you must give your roof a parapet; then your house will not incur blood-vengeance, should anyone fall off the top.

8. "When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof, that you may not bring the guilt of blood upon your house, if any one fall from it.

9. 'You must not sow any other crop in your vineyard, or the whole yield may become forfeit, both the crop you have sown and the yield of your vines.

9. "You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the whole yield be forfeited to the sanctuary, the crop which you have sown and the yield of the vineyard.

10. 'You must not plough with ox and donkey together.

10. You shall not plow with an ox and an ass together.

11. 'You must not wear clothing woven part of wool, part of linen.

11. You shall not wear a mingled stuff, wool and linen together.

12. 'You must make tassels for the four corners of the cloak in which you wrap yourself.

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

13. 'If a man marries a woman, has sexual intercourse with her and then, turning against her,

13. "If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, and then spurns her,

14. taxes her with misconduct and publicly defames her by saying, "I married this woman and when I had sexual intercourse with her I did not find evidence of her virginity,"

14. and charges her with shameful conduct, and brings an evil name upon her, saying, `I took this woman, and when I came near her, I did not find in her the tokens of virginity,'

15. the girl's father and mother must take the evidence of her virginity and produce it before the elders of the town, at the gate.

15. then the father of the young woman and her mother shall take and bring out the tokens of her virginity to the elders of the city in the gate;

16. To the elders, the girl's father will say, "I gave this man my daughter for a wife and he has turned against her,

16. and the father of the young woman shall say to the elders, `I gave my daughter to this man to wife, and he spurns her;

17. and now he taxes her with misconduct, saying, I have found no evidence of virginity in your daughter. Here is the evidence of my daughter's virginity!"

17. and lo, he has made shameful charges against her, saying, "I did not find in your daughter the tokens of virginity." And yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity.' And they shall spread the garment before the elders of the city.

18. They must then display the cloth to the elders of the town.

18. Then the elders of that city shall take the man and whip him;

19. The elders of the town in question will have the man arrested and flogged, and fine him a hundred silver shekels for publicly defaming a virgin of Israel, and give this money to the girl's father. She will remain his wife; as long as he lives, he may not divorce her.

19. and they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver, and give them to the father of the young woman, because he has brought an evil name upon a virgin of Israel; and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.

20. 'But if the accusation that the girl cannot show evidence of virginity is substantiated,

20. But if the thing is true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the young woman,

21. she must be taken out, and at the door of her father's house her fellow-citizens must stone her to death for having committed an infamy in Israel by bringing disgrace on her father's family. You must banish this evil from among you.

21. then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has wrought folly in Israel by playing the harlot in her father's house; so you shall purge the evil from the midst of you.

22. 'If a man is caught having sexual intercourse with another man's wife, both must be put to death: the man who has slept with her and the woman herself. You must banish this evil from Israel.

22. "If a man is found lying with the wife of another man, both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman; so you shall purge the evil from Israel.

23. 'If a virgin is engaged to a man, and another man encounters her in the town and has sexual intercourse with her,

23. "If there is a betrothed virgin, and a man meets her in the city and lies with her,

24. you will take them both to the gate of the town in question and stone them to death: the girl, for not having called for help in the town; the man, for having exploited his fellow-citizen's wife. You must banish this evil from among you.

24. then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones, the young woman because she did not cry for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbor's wife; so you shall purge the evil from the midst of you.

25. But if the man ran into the betrothed girl in the open country and slept with her, having taken her by force, her ravisher alone must die;

25. "But if in the open country a man meets a young woman who is betrothed, and the man seizes her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die.

26. you must do nothing to the girl, she has not committed a capital offence. The case is like that of a man who attacks and kills his fellow:

26. But to the young woman you shall do nothing; in the young woman there is no offense punishable by death, for this case is like that of a man attacking and murdering his neighbor;

27. since he came across her in the open country, the betrothed girl may have called out, without anyone's coming to her rescue.

27. because he came upon her in the open country, and though the betrothed young woman cried for help there was no one to rescue her.

28. 'If a man meets a young virgin who is not betrothed and seizes her, sleeps with her and is caught in the act,

28. "If a man meets a virgin who is not betrothed, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are found,

29. her ravisher must give the girl's father fifty silver shekels; since he has exploited her, she must be his wife and, as long as he lives, he may not divorce her.'

29. then the man who lay with her shall give to the father of the young woman fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has violated her; he may not put her away all his days.

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30. "A man shall not take his father's wife, nor shall he uncover her who is his father's.