‏ Deuteronomy 22

1When you see the calf of your brother or his sheep wandering in the way, you shall not overlookthem; you shall by all means turn them back to your brother, and you shall restore them to him. 2And if your brother do not come near you, and you do not know him, you shall bring itinto your house within; and it shall be with you until your brother shall seek them, and you shall restorethem to him. 3Thus shall you do to his ass, and thus shall you do to his garment, and thus shall youdo to every thing that your brother has lost; whatever shall have been lost by him, and you shall havefound, you shall not have power to overlook. 4You shall not see the ass of your brother, or his calf, fallen in the way: you shall notoverlook them, you shall surely help him to raise them up. 5The apparel of a man shall not be on a woman, neither shall a man put on a woman's dress;for every one that does these things is an abomination to the Lord your God. 6And if you should come upon a brood of birds before your face in the way or upon any tree,or upon the earth, young or eggs, and the mother be brooding on the young or the eggs, you shall not takethe dam with the young ones. 7You shall by all means let the mother go, but you shall take the young to yourself; thatit may be well with you, and that you may live long. 8If you should build a new house, then shall you make a parapet to your house; so you shallnot bring blood-guiltiness upon your house, if one should in any wise fall from it. 9You shall not sow your vineyard with diverse seed, lest the fruit be devoted, and whateverseed you may sow, with the fruit of your vineyard. 10You shall not plow with an ox and an ass together. 11You shall not wear a mingledgarment, woollen and linen together. 12You shall make fringes on the four borders of your garments, with which soever you maybe clothed. 13And if any one should take a wife, and dwell with her, and hate her, 14and attach to her reproachful words, and bring against her an evil name, and say, I tookthis woman, and when I came to her I found not her tokens of virginity: 15then the father and the mother of the damsel shall take and bring out the damsel's tokensof virginity to the elders of the city to the gate. 16And the father of the damsel shall say to the elders, I gave this my daughter to thisman for a wife; 17and now he has hated her, and attaches reproachful words to her, saying, I have not foundtokens of virginity with your daughter; and theseare the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall unfold the garment before the eldersof the city. 18And the elders of that city shall take that man, and shall chastise him, 19and shall fine him a hundred shekels, and shall givethem to the father of the damsel, because he has brought forth an evil name against a virginof Israel; and she shall be his wife: he shall never be able to put her away. 20But if this report be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel; 21then shall they bring out the damsel to the doors of her father's house, and shall stoneher with stones, and she shall die; because she has wrought folly among the children of Israel, to defilethe house of her father by whoring: so you shall remove the evil one from among you. 22And if a man be found lying with a woman married to a man, you⌃ shall kill them both,the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shall you remove the wicked one out of Israel. 23And if there be a young damsel espoused to a man, and a man should have found her inthe city and have lain with her; 24you⌃ shall bring them both out to the gate of their city, and they shall be stoned withstones, and they shall die; the damsel, because she cried not in the city; and the man, because he humbledhis neighbor's spouse: so shall you remove the evil one from yourselves. 25But if a man find in the field a damsel that is betrothed, and he should force her andlie with her, you⌃ shall kill the man that lay with her only. 26And the damsel has notcommitted a sin worthy of death; as if a man should rise up against his neighbor, and killhim, sois this thing; 27because he found her in the field; the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none tohelp her. 28And if any one should find a young virgin who has not been betrothed, and should forceher and lie with her, and be found, 29the man who lay with her shall give to the father of the damsel fifty silver didrachmas,and she shall be his wife, because he has humbled her; he shall never be able to put her away. 30A man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover his father's skirt.

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