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Deuteronomy

ESV

Chapter 22

¹You shall not see your brother's ox or his sheep going astray and ignore them. You shall take them back to your brother. ²And if your brother 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, and you shall restore it to him. ³And so you shall do with his donkey; 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 ignore it. ⁴You shall not see your brother's donkey or his ox fallen down by the way and ignore them. You shall help him to lift them up again. ⁵A woman shall not wear a man's garment, nor shall a man put on a woman's cloak, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the LORD your God. ⁶If you come across a bird's nest in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the mother is sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young. ⁷You shall surely let the mother go, but the young you may take for yourself, that it may go well with you, and that you may live long. ⁸When 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 anyone should fall from it. ⁹You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the whole yield be forfeited, the crop that you have sown and the yield of the vineyard. ¹⁰You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together. ¹¹You shall not wear cloth of wool and linen mixed together. ¹²You shall make yourself tassels on the four corners of your cloak with which you cover yourself. ¹³If any man takes a wife and goes in to her and detests her, ¹⁴and makes groundless charges against her and brings up an evil report about her, saying, 'I took this woman, and when I came near her, I found her not to be a virgin,' ¹⁵then the father of the young woman and her mother shall take and bring out the evidence of her virginity to the elders of the city in the gate. ¹⁶And the father of the young woman shall say to the elders, 'I gave my daughter to this man to be his wife, and he detests her; ¹⁷and behold, he has made groundless charges, saying, ¹⁸Then the elders of that city shall take the man and whip him, ¹⁹and 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 report about a virgin of Israel. And she shall remain his wife; he may not divorce her all his days. ²⁰But if this thing is true, that evidence of virginity was not found for the young woman, ²¹then 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 worked folly in Israel by whoring in her father's house. So you shall purge the evil from your midst. ²²If 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. ²³If there is a young woman, a virgin, betrothed to a husband, and a man meets her in the city and lies with her, ²⁴then 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 your midst. ²⁵But 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. ²⁶But 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, ²⁷because he met her in the open country, and though the betrothed young woman cried for help, there was no one to rescue her. ²⁸If a man meets a virgin who is not betrothed, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are found, ²⁹then 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 divorce her all his days. ³⁰A man shall not take his father's wife, nor shall he uncover his father's cloak.