22:1 If you see your brother’s ox or sheep straying, do not ignore it but be sure to take it back to him.
22:2 If the brother does not live near you or if you do not know who he is, take it home with you and keep it until he comes looking for it. Then give it back to him.
22:3 Do the same if you find your brother’s donkey or his cloak or anything he loses. Do not ignore it.
22:4 If you see your brother’s donkey or his ox fallen on the road, do not ignore it. Help him get it to its feet.
22:5 A woman must not wear men’s clothing, nor a man wear women’s clothing, for the LORD your God detests anyone who does this.
22:6 If you come across a bird’s nest beside the road, either in a tree or on the ground, and the mother is sitting on the young or on the eggs, do not take the mother with the young.
22:7 You may take the young, but be sure to let the mother go, so that it may go well with you and you may have a long life.
22:8 When you build a new house, make a parapet around your roof so that you may not bring the guilt of bloodshed on your house if someone falls from the roof.
22:9 Do not plant two kinds of seed in your vineyard; if you do, not only the crops you plant but also the fruit of the vineyard will be defiled.
22:10 Do not plow with an ox and a donkey yoked together.
22:11 Do not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together.
22:12 Make tassels on the four corners of the cloak you wear.
22:13 If a man takes a wife and, after lying with her, dislikes her
22:14 and slanders her and gives her a bad name, saying, “I married this woman, but when I approached her, I did not find proof of her virginity,”
22:15 then the girl’s father and mother shall bring proof that she was a virgin to the town elders at the gate.
22:16 The girl’s father will say to the elders, “I gave my daughter in marriage to this man, but he dislikes her.
22:17 Now he has slandered her and said, ‘I did not find your daughter to be a virgin.’ But here is the proof of my daughter’s virginity.” Then her parents shall display the cloth before the elders of the town,
22:18 and the elders shall take the man and punish him.
22:19 They shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the girl’s father, because this man has given an Israelite virgin a bad name. She shall continue to be his wife; he must not divorce her as long as he lives.
22:20 If, however, the charge is true and no proof of the girl’s virginity can be found,
22:21 she shall be brought to the door of her father’s house and there the men of her town shall stone her to death. She has done a disgraceful thing in Israel by being promiscuous while still in her father’s house. You must purge the evil from among you.
22:22 If a man is found sleeping with another man’s wife, both the man who slept with her and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.
22:23 If a man happens to meet in a town a virgin pledged to be married and he sleeps with her,
22:24 you shall take both of them to the gate of that town and stone them to death–the girl because she was in a town and did not scream for help, and the man because he violated another man’s wife. You must purge the evil from among you.
22:25 But if out in the country a man happens to meet a girl pledged to be married and rapes her, only the man who has done this shall die.
22:26 Do nothing to the girl; she has committed no sin deserving death. This case is like that of someone who attacks and murders his neighbor,
22:27 for the man found the girl out in the country, and though the betrothed girl screamed, there was no one to rescue her.
22:28 If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered,
22:29 he shall pay the girl’s father fifty shekels of silver. He must marry the girl, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.
22:30 A man is not to marry his father’s wife; he must not dishonor his father’s bed.
22:1 You shall not see your brother’s ox or his sheep straying and neglect them; you must return them to your brother.
22:2 And if your brother is not nearby you, or if you do not know who he is, you shall bring it to your house. And it shall be with you until your brother demands it; then you shall return it to him.
22:3 And thus shall you do with his donkey; and thus shall you do with his clothing; and thus shall you do with any of your brother’s lost things, which he has lost and you have found. You may not neglect them.
22:4 You shall not see your brother’s donkey or his ox fallen by the way and neglect them; you must lift them up with him.
22:5 A woman shall not put on a man’s clothing, nor shall a man wear a woman’s garment; for everyone who does these things is an abomination to Jehovah your God.
22:6 If you happen to come upon a bird’s nest in the way, in any tree or on the ground, and in it are young birds or eggs, and the mother sitting upon the young birds or upon the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young.
22:7 You must let the mother go, but the young you may take for yourself, that it may go well with you and that you may extend your days.
22:8 When you build a new house, you shall make a low wall around the edge of your roof so that you do not put the guilt of blood on your house if someone falls from it.
22:9 You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the full produce, the seed which you sow, be forfeited to the sanctuary, as well as the increase of the vineyard.
22:10 You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.
22:11 You shall not wear clothing of mixed materials, of wool and linen together.
22:12 You shall make twisted cords upon the four corners of your garment with which you cover yourself.
22:13 If a man takes a wife and goes in unto her, and later despises her,
22:14 And charges her with shameful deeds and spreads an evil report about her, and says, I took this woman, and when I drew near to her, I did not find her to be a virgin;
22:15 Then the girl’s father and her mother shall take and bring forth the evidence of the girl’s virginity to the elders of the city at the gate.
22:16 And the girl’s father shall say to the elders, I gave my daughter to this man as a wife, but he despised her;
22:17 And now he charges her with shameful deeds, saying, I did not find your daughter to be a virgin. But this is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.
22:18 Then the elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him;
22:19 And they shall fine him one hundred shekels of silver and give it to the girl’s father, for he spread an evil report against a virgin of Israel. And she shall be his wife; he may not send her away all his days.
22:20 But if this claim is true ? the girl was not found to be a virgin ?
22:21 They shall bring the girl out to the entrance of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones so that she dies; for she has done folly in Israel by committing fornication in her father’s house. Thus you shall utterly remove the evil from your midst.
22:22 If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, both of them shall die, the man who was lying with the woman and the woman. Thus you shall utterly remove the evil from Israel.
22:23 If a girl who is a virgin is engaged to a man, and a man finds her in the city and lies with her;
22:24 You shall bring both of them out to the gate of that city and stone them with stones so that they die, the girl because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he humbled his neighbor’s wife. Thus you shall utterly remove the evil from your midst.
22:25 But if the man finds the engaged girl in the field, and the man overpowers her and lies with her, only the man who was lying with her shall die.
22:26 But to the girl you shall not do anything; there is no sin worthy of death with the girl; for as it is when a man rises up against his neighbor and slays him, so is this matter.
22:27 For he found her in the field; the engaged girl cried out and there was no one to save her.
22:28 If a man finds a girl who is a virgin and is not engaged, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are found;
22:29 The man who was lying with her shall give fifty shekels of silver to the girl’s father. And she shall be his wife, because he humbled her; he may not send her away all his days.
22:30 A man shall not take his father’s wife, so that he does not uncover the skirt of his father’s garment.