22 1 Don't see your brother's ox or sheep wandering off and ignore them; be sure to return them to your brother. 2 If your brother isn't nearby, or you don't know him, bring it home and keep it until he asks for it, then return it to him. 3 Do the same for his donkey, the same for his garment, the same for anything your brother loses and you find; you must not ignore it. 4 Don't ignore your brother's donkey or ox collapsed on the road; help him get it up.
5 A woman must not wear men's clothing, nor a man a woman's, for whoever does these things is detestable to your Father.
6 If you come upon a bird's nest on the way, in any tree or on the ground, with chicks or eggs, and the mother sitting on the chicks or the eggs, do not take the mother with the young. 7 You must send the mother away, but take the young for yourself, so it goes well for you and your days are long.
8 When you build a new house, put a railing on the roof, so your house doesn't bear bloodguilt if someone falls from it.
9 Don't plant your vineyard with mixed seed, or the entire yield—the seed sown and the vineyard's fruit—will be forfeited. 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 charges her with shameful behavior, giving her a bad name, saying, 'I took this woman, but when I approached her I found no proof of her virginity,' 15 then the young woman's father and mother shall take and bring out evidence of her virginity to the city elders at the gate. 16 The young woman's father will tell the elders, 'I gave my daughter to this man as a wife, and he hates her,' 17 Now he has charged her with shameful conduct, saying, 'I found no proof of your daughter's virginity.' But here is the proof of my daughter's virginity.' 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 They must bring the young woman to her father's house entrance, and the men of her city will stone her to death for doing a disgraceful thing in Israel — being promiscuous in her father's house. Remove the evil from among you.
22 If a man is found lying with someone else's wife, both must die — the man who lay with her, and the woman. Remove the evil from Israel. 23 If a young woman, a virgin engaged to a man, and another man finds her in the city and sleeps with her, 24 Bring both to that city's gate and stone them to death: the young woman, because she didn't scream for help in the city; the man, because he violated his neighbor's wife. Purge the evil from among you. 25 But if the man finds the engaged young woman in a field, seizes her, and lies with her, he alone dies. 26 Do nothing to the young woman; she has no death-worthy sin. This case is like a man attacking his neighbor and killing him: 27 for he found her in the field; the engaged young woman cried out, but no one rescued her. 28 If a man finds an unpledged young virgin, seizes her, lies with her, and they are found out, 29 The man who slept with her must give the young woman's father about half a year's wages in silver; she becomes his wife because he violated her, and he may not divorce her his whole life. 30 A man must not marry his father's wife; he must not dishonor his father's marriage bed.
