22Deuteronomy 22

CHAP. XXII. / 1 Of humanitie toward brethren. 5 The sexe is to bee distinguished by apparell. 6 The dam is not to be taken with her yong ones. 8 The house must haue battlements. 9 Confusion is to be a

1Thou shalt not see thy brothers oxe, or his sheepe go astray, and hide thy selfe from them: thou shalt in any case bring them againe vnto thy brother.Select Deuteronomy 22:1

2And if thy brother be not nigh vnto thee, or if thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it vnto thine owne house, and it shall be with thee, vntil thy brother seeke after it, and thou shalt restore it to him againe.Select Deuteronomy 22:2

3In like maner shalt thou do with his asse, and so shalt thou doe with his raiment: and with all lost thing of thy brothers which he hath lost, and thou hast found, shalt thou do likewise: thou mayest not hide thy selfe.Select Deuteronomy 22:3

4Thou shalt not see thy brothers asse or his oxe fall downe by the way, and hide thy selfe from them: thou shalt surely helpe him to lift them vp againe.Select Deuteronomy 22:4

5The woman shall not weare that which pertaineth vnto a man, neither shall a man put on a womans garment: for all that doe so, are abomination vnto the Lord thy God.Select Deuteronomy 22:5

6If a birds nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be yong ones, or egges, and the damme sitting vpon the yong, or vpon the egges, thou shalt not take the damme with the yong.Select Deuteronomy 22:6

7But thou shalt in any wise let the damme goe, and take the yong to thee, that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy dayes.Select Deuteronomy 22:7

8When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roofe, that thou bring not blood vpon thine house, if any man fall from thence.Select Deuteronomy 22:8

9Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with diuers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sowen, and the fruit of thy Uineyard be defiled.Select Deuteronomy 22:9

10Thou shalt not plow with an oxe and an asse together.Select Deuteronomy 22:10

11Thou shalt not weare a garment of diuers sorts, as of woollen, and linnen together.Select Deuteronomy 22:11

12Thou shalt make thee fringes vpon the foure quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou couerest thy selfe.Select Deuteronomy 22:12

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

14And giue occasions of speach against her, and bring vp an euill name vpon her, and say, I tooke this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a mayd:Select Deuteronomy 22:14

15Then shal the father of the damosell, and her mother take, and bring forth the tokens of the damosels virginitie, vnto the Elders of the citie in the gate.Select Deuteronomy 22:15

16And the damosels father shall say vnto the Elders, I gaue my daughter vnto this man to wife, & he hateth her:Select Deuteronomy 22:16

17And loe, he hath giuen occasions of speech against her, saying, I found not thy daughter a maid: and yet these are the tokens of my daughters virginity; and they shall spread the cloth before the Elders of the citie.Select Deuteronomy 22:17

18And the Elders of that citie shall take that man, and chastise him.Select Deuteronomy 22:18

19And they shall amearse him in an hundred shekels of siluer, and giue them vnto the father of the damosell, because he hath brought vp an euill name vpon a virgine of Israel: and she shall be his wife, hee may not put her away all his dayes.Select Deuteronomy 22:19

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

21Then they shall bring out the damosell to the doore of her fathers house, and the men of her city shal stone her with stones that she die, because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her fathers house: so shalt thou put euill 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 shalt thou put away euill from Israel.Select Deuteronomy 22:22

23If a damosell that is a virgin be betrothed vnto an husband, and a man find her in the citie, and lie with her:Select Deuteronomy 22:23

24Then yee shall bring them both out vnto the gate of that citie, and yee shall stone them with stones that they die; the damosel, because shee cried not, being in the citie; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbours wife: so thou shalt put away euill from among you.Select Deuteronomy 22:24

25But if a man find a betrothed damosel 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 vnto the damosel thou shalt doe nothing, there is in the damosel no sinne worthy of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, euen so is this matter.Select Deuteronomy 22:26

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

28If a man finde a damosel 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 giue vnto the damosels father fifty shekels of siluer, and she shalbe his wife, because he hath humbled her: he may not put her away all his dayes.Select Deuteronomy 22:29

30A man shall not take his fathers wife, nor discouer his fathers skirt.Select Deuteronomy 22:30