Deuteronomy 22

1If you see a fellow Israelite’s ox or sheep straying, do not ignore it. Be sure to take it back to him.

2If he does not live near you, or you do not know who he is, bring the animal home and keep it with you until he comes looking for it; then give it back to him.

3Do the same with his donkey, with his cloak, and with anything else your fellow Israelite loses and you find. You must not ignore it.

4If you see a fellow Israelite’s donkey or ox fallen down on the road, do not ignore it. Be sure to help him get it back on its feet.

5A woman must not wear men’s clothing, and a man must not put on a woman’s garment, for everyone who does these things is detestable to Yahweh your God.

6If you come across a bird’s nest along the road, in any tree or on the ground, with young birds or eggs, and the mother is sitting on the young or on the eggs, do not take the mother along with the young.

7Be sure to let the mother go, though you may take the young for yourself, so that it may go well with you and you may live long.

8When you build a new house, make a railing around your roof, so that you do not bring the guilt of bloodshed on your house if someone falls from it.

9Do not plant your vineyard with two kinds of seed, or the whole crop will be forfeited to the sanctuary, both the seed you have sown and the fruit of the vineyard.

10Do not plow with an ox and a donkey together.

11Do not wear clothing of mixed fabric, wool and linen woven together.

12Make tassels on the four corners of the cloak you wrap around yourself.

13If a man marries a woman and sleeps with her, and then turns against her,

14accuses her of shameful conduct, and gives her a bad name, saying, ‘I married this woman, but when I came near her, I did not find proof that she was a virgin,’

15then the young woman’s father and mother are to take the proof of her virginity and bring it out to the elders of the city at the gate.

16The young woman’s father is to say to the elders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man as his wife, but he has turned against her.

17Now he has accused her of shameful conduct, saying, “I did not find proof that your daughter was a virgin.” But here is the proof of my daughter’s virginity.’ Then they are to spread out the cloth before the elders of the city.

18The elders of that city are to take the man and punish him.

19They are to fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give it to the young woman’s father, because the man has given a virgin of Israel a bad name. She is to remain his wife, and he may not divorce her as long as he lives.

20But if the charge is true and no proof of the young woman’s virginity is found,

21they are to bring the young woman out to the entrance of her father’s house, and the men of her town are to stone her to death, because she has done an outrageous thing in Israel by acting like a prostitute while in her father’s house. You must purge the evil from among you.

22If a man is found lying with a woman who is married to another man, both of them must die, the man who lay with the woman and the woman. You must purge the evil from Israel.

23If a young woman who is a virgin is engaged to a man, and another man meets her in the town and lies with her,

24you are to bring them both out to the gate of that town and stone them to death—the young woman because she did not cry out for help though she was in the town, and the man because he violated his neighbor’s wife. You must purge the evil from among you.

25But if the man meets the engaged young woman in the open country, and he seizes her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her is to die.

26Do nothing to the young woman; she has committed no sin that deserves death. This case is like that of a man who attacks his neighbor and murders him.

27For he met her in the open country, and though the engaged young woman cried out, there was no one to rescue her.

28If a man meets a young woman who is a virgin and not engaged, and he seizes her and lies with her, and they are discovered,

29the man who lay with her is to give the young woman’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she is to become his wife, because he has violated her. He may not divorce her as long as he lives.

30A man must not marry his father’s wife; he must not dishonor his father’s bed.