Liber Deuteronomii, 22

1. Non videbis bovem fratris tui aut ovem errantem et praeteribis, sed reduces fratri tuo;

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. si autem non est prope frater tuus nec nosti eum, duces in domum tuam, et erunt apud te quamdiu quaerat ea frater tuus et recipiat.

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. Similiter facies de asino et de vestimento et de omni re fratris tui, quae perierit: si inveneris eam, ne subtrahas te.

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. Si videris asinum fratris tui aut bovem cecidisse in via, non subtrahes te, sed sublevabis cum eo.

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. Non induetur mulier veste virili, nec vir utetur veste feminea: abominabilis enim apud Dominum Deum tuum est omnis, qui facit haec.

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. Si ambulans per viam, in arbore vel in terra nidum avis inveneris et matrem pullis vel ovis desuper incubantem, non sumes eam de filiis,

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. sed abire patieris matrem tenens filios, ut bene sit tibi, et longo vivas tempore.

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. Cum aedificaveris domum novam, facies murum tecto tuo per circuitum, ne adducas sanguinem super domum tuam et sis reus, labente aliquo in praeceps ruente.

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. Non seres vineam tuam altero semine, ne et sementis, quam sevisti, et quae nascuntur ex vinea, pariter sanctificentur.

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. Non arabis in bove simul et asino.

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

11. Non indueris vestimento, quod ex lana linoque contextum est.

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

12. Funiculos facies per quattuor angulos pallii tui, quo operieris.

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

13. Si duxerit vir uxorem et intraverit ad eam et postea odio habuerit eam

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

14. imputaveritque ei obiciens ei nomen pessimum et dixerit: “Uxorem hanc accepi et ingressus ad eam non inveni virginem”,

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. tollent pater et mater eius et ferent secum signa virginitatis eius ad seniores urbis, qui in porta sunt,

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. et dicet pater: “Filiam meam dedi huic uxorem, quam, quia odit,

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. imponit ei nomen pessimum, ut dicat: Non inveni filiam tuam virginem; et ecce haec sunt signa virginitatis filiae meae”. Expandent vestimentum coram se nioribus civitatis.

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. Apprehendentque senes urbis illius virum et verberabunt illum

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

19. condemnantes insuper centum siclis argenti, quos dabunt patri puellae, quoniam diffamavit nomen pessimum super virginem Israel; habebitque eam uxorem et non poterit dimittere eam omnibus diebus vitae suae.

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. Quod si verum est, quod obicit, et non est in puella inventa virginitas,

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

21. educent eam ad fores domus patris sui, et lapidibus obruent viri civitatis eius, et morietur, quoniam fecit nefas in Israel, ut fornicaretur in domo patris sui; et auferes malum de medio tui.

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. Si inventus fuerit vir dormiens cum uxore alterius, uterque morietur, id est adulter et adultera; et auferes malum de 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. Si puellam virginem desponsatam viro invenerit aliquis in civitate et concubuerit cum illa,

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

24. educetis utrumque ad portam civitatis illius et lapidibus obruetis, et morientur: puella quia non clamavit, cum esset in civitate, vir quia humiliavit uxorem proximi sui; et auferes malum de medio tui.

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. Sin autem in agro reppererit vir puellam, quae desponsata est, et apprehendens concubuerit cum illa, ipse morietur solus;

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. puella nihil patietur nec est rea mortis, quoniam sicut vir consurgit contra fratrem suum et occidit eum, ita et puella perpessa est:

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. sola erat in agro, clamavit puella desponsata, et nullus affuit, qui liberaret eam.

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. Si invenerit vir puellam virginem, quae non habet sponsum, et apprehendens concubuerit cum ea, et res ad iudicium venerit,

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

29. dabit, qui dormivit cum ea, patri puellae quinquaginta siclos argenti et habebit eam uxorem, quia humiliavit illam: non poterit dimittere eam cunctis diebus vitae suae.

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.