Deuteronomy 22
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1You shall not see your brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and withhold your help from them: you shall in any case bring them back to your brother. 2And if your brother be not near you, or if you do not know him, then you shall bring it to your own house, and it shall be with you until your brother seeks after it, and then you shall restore it to him again. 3In like manner shall you do with his donkey; and so shall you do with his raiment; and with all lost things of your brother's, which he has lost, and you have found, shall you do likewise: you may not withhold your help. 4You shall not see your brother's donkey or his ox fall down by the way, and withhold your help from them: you shall surely help him to lift them up again.

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 unto the LORD your God.

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 upon the young, or upon the eggs, you shall not take the dam with the young; 7But you shall surely let the dam go, and take the young to you; that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days.

8When you build a new house, then you shall make a parapet for your roof, that you bring not blood upon your house, if any man falls from there.

9You shall not sow your vineyard with diverse seeds, lest the fruit of your seed which you have sown, and the fruit of your vineyard, be defiled. 10You shall not plow with an ox and an donkey together. 11You shall not wear a garment of different sorts, as of wool and linen together.

12You shall make you fringes upon the four quarters of your vesture, with which you cover yourself.

13If any man takes a wife, and goes in unto her, and hates her, 14And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, “I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid”; 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. 16And the damsel's father shall say to the elders, “I gave my daughter to this man in marriage, and he hates her; 17And, lo, he has given occasions of speech against her, saying, I found not your daughter a maid (virgin). And yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity”. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city. 18And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him, 19And they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver, and give them to the father of the damsel, because he has brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel; and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days. 20But if this thing is true, and the tokens of virginity are not found for the damsel, 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 dies: because she has wrought folly in Israel, to play the harlot in her father's house: so shall you put evil away from among you.

22If a man be found lying with a woman married to a 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.

23If a damsel that is a virgin is betrothed to a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her; 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. 25But if a man finds a betrothed damsel in the field, and forces her, and lies with her: then only the man that lay with her shall die. 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: 27For he found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her.

28If a man finds a damsel that is a virgin, who is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they are found; 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.

30A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt.

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