Deuteronomy 22

22 ¹ You must not see your brother's ox or his sheep wandering off and ignore them; be sure to return them to your brother. ² And if your brother doesn't live nearby, or you don't know who he is, take it home and keep it until he comes looking for it; then return it to him. ³ Do the same with his donkey, do the same with his garment, and do the same with anything your brother loses and you find; you may not ignore it. ⁴ You must not see your brother's donkey or his ox collapsed on the road and ignore them; be sure to help him get them back on their feet.

⁵ A woman must not wear a man's clothing, and a man must not put on a woman's garment, for whoever does these things is detestable to your Father.

⁶ If you come upon a bird's nest along the way, in any tree or on the ground, with chicks or eggs and the mother sitting on the chicks or the eggs, you must not take the mother together with the young. ⁷ Be sure to let the mother go, but you may take the young for yourself, so that things may go well for you and you may live long.

⁸ When you build a new house, put a safety railing around your roof, so that you do not bring bloodguilt on your house if anyone should fall from it.

⁹ You must not plant your vineyard with two kinds of seed, or the whole yield will be forfeited—both the crop you have sown and the fruit of the vineyard. ¹⁰ You must not plow with an ox and a donkey yoked together. ¹¹ You must not wear cloth of wool and linen woven together.

¹² Put tassels on the four corners of the cloak you wear.

Honoring the Marriage Covenant

¹³ If a man marries a woman, and after sleeping with her he comes to hate her, ¹⁴ and accuses 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 evidence of her virginity," ¹⁵ then the young woman's father and mother shall take the proof of her virginity and bring it to the elders of the city at the gate. ¹⁶ And the young woman's father shall say to the elders, "I gave my daughter to this man as his wife, and he has come to hate her, ¹⁷ and now he has accused her of shameful conduct, saying, 'I did not find evidence of your daughter's virginity.' But here is the proof of my daughter's virginity." And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city. ¹⁸ Then the elders of that city shall take the man and discipline him, ¹⁹ and they shall fine him about a year's wages in silver and give it to the young woman's father, because he has given a bad name to a virgin of Israel. She shall remain his wife; he may not divorce her as long as he lives.

²⁰ But if the charge is true, and no evidence of the young woman's virginity is found, ²¹ then they shall bring the young woman to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death, because she has done a disgraceful thing in Israel by being promiscuous in her father's house. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.

²² If a man is found lying with a married woman, both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman and the woman. So you shall purge the evil from Israel.

²³ If there is a young woman, a virgin engaged to a man, and another man finds her in the city and lies with her, ²⁴ then you shall bring both of them out to the gate of that city and stone them to death—the young woman because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbor's wife. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.

²⁵ But if the man finds the engaged young woman in the open country, and he seizes her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die. ²⁶ You shall do nothing to the young woman; she has committed no sin worthy of death. This case is like that of a man who attacks his neighbor and murders him, ²⁷ for he found her in the open country, and though the engaged young woman cried out, there was no one to rescue her.

²⁸ If a man finds a young woman, a virgin who is not engaged, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are discovered, ²⁹ then the man who lay with her shall give the young woman's father about half a year's wages in silver, and she shall be his wife because he has violated her. He may not divorce her as long as he lives.

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