22Deuteronomy 22

1You shall not see your brother’s ox or his sheep go astray, and hide yourself from them: you shall in any case bring them again to your brother.Select Deuteronomy 22:1

2And if your brother be not near to you, or if you know him not, then you shall bring it to your own house, and it shall be with you until your brother seek after it, and you shall restore it to him again.Select Deuteronomy 22:2

3In like manner shall you do with his ass; and so shall you do with his raiment; and with all lost thing of your brother’s, which he has lost, and you have found, shall you do likewise: you may not hide yourself. ¶Select Deuteronomy 22:3

4You shall not see your brother’s ass or his ox fall down by the way, and hide yourself from them: you shall surely help him to lift them up again. ¶Select Deuteronomy 22:4

5The woman shall not wear that which pertains to a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so are abomination to the LORD your God. ¶Select Deuteronomy 22:5

6If a bird’s nest chance to be before you in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting on the young, or on the eggs, you shall not take the dam with the young:Select Deuteronomy 22:6

7But you shall in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to you; that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days. ¶Select Deuteronomy 22:7

8When you build a new house, then you shall make a battlement for your roof, that you bring not blood on your house, if any man fall from there. ¶Select Deuteronomy 22:8

9You shall not sow your vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of your seed which you have sown, and the fruit of your vineyard, be defiled. ¶Select Deuteronomy 22:9

10You shall not plow with an ox and an ass together. ¶Select Deuteronomy 22:10

11You shall not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woolen and linen together. ¶Select Deuteronomy 22:11

12You shall make you fringes on the four quarters of your clothing, with which you cover yourself. ¶Select Deuteronomy 22:12

13If any man take a wife, and go in to her, and hate her,Select Deuteronomy 22:13

14And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name on her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid:Select Deuteronomy 22:14

15Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel’s virginity to the elders of the city in the gate:Select Deuteronomy 22:15

16And the damsel’s father shall say to the elders, I gave my daughter to this man to wife, and he hates her;Select Deuteronomy 22:16

17And, see, he has given occasions of speech against her, saying, I found not your daughter a maid; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter’s virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.Select Deuteronomy 22:17

18And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him;Select Deuteronomy 22:18

19And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver, and give them to the father of the damsel, because he has brought up an evil name on a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.Select Deuteronomy 22:19

20But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel:Select Deuteronomy 22:20

21Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she has worked folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father’s house: so shall you put evil away from among you. ¶Select Deuteronomy 22:21

22If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shall you put away evil from Israel. ¶Select Deuteronomy 22:22

23If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed to an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;Select Deuteronomy 22:23

24Then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he has humbled his neighbor’s wife: so you shall put away evil from among you. ¶Select Deuteronomy 22:24

25But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her: then the man only that lay with her shall die.Select Deuteronomy 22:25

26But to the damsel you shall do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man rises against his neighbor, and slays him, even so is this matter:Select Deuteronomy 22:26

27For he found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her. ¶Select Deuteronomy 22:27

28If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;Select Deuteronomy 22:28

29Then the man that lay with her shall give to the damsel’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he has humbled her, he may not put her away all his days. ¶Select Deuteronomy 22:29

30A man shall not take his father’s wife, nor discover his father’s skirt.Select Deuteronomy 22:30