Deuteronomy 22

Revised Geneva Translation

22 “You shall not see your brother’s ox or his sheep go astray and withdraw yourself from them. Bring them back to your brother.

² “And if your brother is not near you, or if you do not know him, then you shall bring it into your house. And it shall remain with you until your brother seeks after it. Then you shall deliver it back to him.

³ “You shall do likewise with his donkey. And so shall you do with his clothing, and with all lost things of your brother which he has lost. If you have found them, you shall not hide them.

⁴ “You shall not see your brother’s donkey, or his ox, fall down on the way and withdraw yourself from them. Lift them up with him.

⁵ “The woman shall not wear that which pertains to the man, nor shall a man put on woman’s clothing. For all who do so are abomination to the LORD your God.

⁶ “If you find a bird’s nest in the way, in any tree, or on the ground (young or eggs) and the mother sitting upon the young or upon the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young.

⁷ “If you must, let the mother go and take the young for yourself, so that you may prosper and prolong your days.

⁸ “When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet on your roof, so that you do not shed blood upon your house if any man falls from there.

⁹ “You shall not sow your vineyard with diverse kinds of seeds, lest you defile the increase of the seed which you have sown, and the fruit of the vineyard.

¹⁰ “You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.

¹¹ “You shall not wear a mixed weave, such as wool and linen together.

¹² “You shall make fringes for yourself upon the four quarters of your covering with which you cover yourself.

¹³ “If a man takes a wife, and after he has lain with her, hates her,

¹⁴ “and then says slanderous things about her, brings a bad name upon her, and says, ‘I took this wife, and when I came to her, I did not find her to be a maid’,

¹⁵ “then the father of the maid and her mother shall take and bring the signs of the maid’s virginity to the elders of the city, to the gate.

¹⁶ “And the maid’s father shall say to the elders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man to be his wife and he hates her.

¹⁷ ‘And lo, he says slanderous things about her, saying, “I did not find your daughter to be a maid.” Lo, these are the signs of my daughter’s virginity.’ And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.

¹⁸ “Then the elders of the city shall take that man and discipline him,

¹⁹ “and shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the father of the maid, because he has brought a bad name upon a maid of Israel. And she shall be his wife. And he may not divorce her the rest of his life.

²⁰ “But if this thing is true, meaning the maid is not found to be a virgin,

²¹ “then they shall bring forth the maid to the door of her father’s house. And the men of her city shall stone her with stones until death. For she has worked folly in Israel by playing the whore in her father’s house. So you shall put evil away from among you.

²² “If a man is found lying with a woman who is married to a man, then both of them shall die, the man who lays with the wife and the wife. So you shall put away evil from Israel.

²³ “If a maid is engaged to a husband, and a man finds her in the town and lies with her,

²⁴ “then you shall bring them both out to the gates of the same city and shall stone them with stones until death, the maid because she did not cry out in the city and the man because he has humbled his neighbor’s wife. So you shall put away evil from among you.

²⁵ “But if a man finds an engaged maid in the field and forces her, and lies with her, then the man who lays with her shall die alone:

²⁶ “And you shall do nothing to the maid, because there is in the maid no cause for death. For as when a man rises against his neighbor and mortally wounds him, so is this matter.

²⁷ “For he found her in the fields, the engaged maid cried out, and there was no one to save her.

²⁸ “If a man finds a maid who is not engaged, and takes her and lies with her, and they are found,

²⁹ “then the man who lays with her shall give fifty shekels of silver to the maid’s father. And she shall be his wife, because he has humbled her. He cannot divorce her the rest of his life.

³⁰ “No man shall take his father’s wife or shall uncover his father’s extremity.”