Deuteronomy 22

¹ 'If you see your brother's ox or one of his sheep straying, you must not disregard it: you must take itback to your brother.

² And if he is not close at hand or you do not know who he is, you must take it home with you and keepit by you until your brother comes to look for it; you wil then return it to him.

³ 'You must do the same with his donkey, the same with his cloak, the same with anything that yourbrother loses and that you find; you must not disregard it.

⁴ 'If you see your brother's donkey or ox fal over on the road, you must not disregard it, but must helpyour brother get it on its feet again.

⁵ 'A woman must not dress like a man, nor a man like a woman; anyone who does this is detestable toYahweh your God.

⁶ 'If, when out walking, you come across a bird's nest, in a tree or on the ground, with chicks or eggsand the mother bird sitting on the chicks or the eggs, you must not take the mother as wel as the chicks.

⁷ Let the mother go; the young you may take for yourself. Thus wil you have prosperity and long life.

⁸ 'When you build a new house, you must give your roof a parapet; then your house will not incur blood-vengeance, should anyone fal off the top.

⁹ 'You must not sow any other crop in your vineyard, or the whole yield may become forfeit, both thecrop you have sown and the yield of your vines.

¹⁰ 'You must not plough with ox and donkey together.

¹¹ 'You must not wear clothing woven part of wool, part of linen.

¹² 'You must make tassels for the four corners of the cloak in which you wrap yourself.

¹³ 'If a man marries a woman, has sexual intercourse with her and then, turning against her,

¹⁴ taxes her with misconduct and publicly defames her by saying, "I married this woman and when Ihad sexual intercourse with her I did not find evidence of her virginity,"

¹⁵ the girl's father and mother must take the evidence of her virginity and produce it before the elders ofthe town, at the gate.

¹⁶ To the elders, the girl's father wil say, "I gave this man my daughter for a wife and he has turnedagainst her,

¹⁷ and now he taxes her with misconduct, saying, I have found no evidence of virginity in your daughter.Here is the evidence of my daughter's virginity!"

¹⁸ They must then display the cloth to the elders of the town.

¹⁹ The elders of the town in question wil have the man arrested and flogged, and fine him a hundredsilver shekels for publicly defaming a virgin of Israel, and give this money to the girl's father. She wil remain his wife; as long as he lives, he may not divorce her.

²⁰ 'But if the accusation that the girl cannot show evidence of virginity is substantiated,

²¹ she must be taken out, and at the door of her father's house her fellow-citizens must stone her todeath for having committed an infamy in Israel by bringing disgrace on her father's family. You must banish thisevil from among you.

²² 'If a man is caught having sexual intercourse with another man's wife, both must be put to death: theman who has slept with her and the woman herself. You must banish this evil from Israel.

²³ 'If a virgin is engaged to a man, and another man encounters her in the town and has sexualintercourse with her,

²⁴ you will take them both to the gate of the town in question and stone them to death: the girl, for nothaving cal ed for help in the town; the man, for having exploited his fel ow-citizen's wife. You must banish thisevil from among you.

²⁵ But if the man ran into the betrothed girl in the open country and slept with her, having taken her byforce, her ravisher alone must die;

²⁶ you must do nothing to the girl, she has not committed a capital offence. The case is like that of aman who attacks and kil s his fel ow:

²⁷ since he came across her in the open country, the betrothed girl may have cal ed out, withoutanyone's coming to her rescue.

²⁸ 'If a man meets a young virgin who is not betrothed and seizes her, sleeps with her and is caught inthe act,

²⁹ her ravisher must give the girl's father fifty silver shekels; since he has exploited her, she must be hiswife and, as long as he lives, he may not divorce her.'