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5 Mose 22
Hoffnung für Alle
5 Mose 22
Hoffnung für Alle
Seid hilfsbereit!
22 Seht nicht untätig zu, wenn sich ein Rind, ein Schaf oder eine Ziege eines Israeliten verirrt! Bringt das Tier auf jeden Fall zurück! 2 Wohnt der Besitzer weit weg von euch oder kennt ihr ihn nicht, dann nehmt das Tier mit nach Hause und versorgt es, bis man nach ihm fragt. Dann gebt es zurück. 3 Das Gleiche gilt, wenn ihr einen entlaufenen Esel findet oder einen Mantel, den jemand hat liegen lassen. Immer wenn ihr jemandem helfen könnt, etwas Verlorenes zurückzubekommen, dann tut es! Verweigert niemandem eure Hilfe!
4 Wenn ihr seht, dass der Esel oder das Rind eines anderen Israeliten auf der Straße gestürzt ist, dann geht nicht vorbei, sondern helft, das Tier wieder auf die Beine zu bringen!
Bewahrt die natürliche Ordnung!
5 Eine Frau soll keine Männerkleidung tragen und ein Mann keine Frauenkleidung. Wer so etwas tut, den verabscheut der Herr, euer Gott.
6 Wenn ihr unterwegs in einem Baum oder am Boden ein Nest entdeckt, in dem ein Vogel brütet oder seine Jungen füttert, dann fangt ihn nicht! 7 Nur die Jungen dürft ihr euch nehmen. Die Mutter lasst frei! Haltet euch daran, dann wird es euch gut gehen, und ihr werdet lange leben.
8 Wenn ihr ein neues Haus baut, dann sichert das Flachdach mit einem Geländer! Sonst seid ihr schuld, wenn jemand abstürzt und ums Leben kommt.
9 Wenn ihr einen Weinberg anlegt, dann pflanzt dort außer den Weinstöcken nichts anderes an! Sonst müsst ihr alles im Heiligtum abliefern, was ihr an Trauben und anderen Früchten erntet.
10 Spannt nicht Rind und Esel zusammen vor den Pflug!
11 Tragt keine Kleidung aus Mischgewebe, in der Wolle und Leinen zusammengewebt sind!
12 Näht Quasten an die vier Enden eurer Obergewänder!
Schutz vor Verleumdung und Vergewaltigung
13 Es kann geschehen, dass ein verheirateter Mann schon nach kurzer Zeit nichts mehr von seiner Frau wissen will. 14 Er bringt sie in Verruf und behauptet: »Als ich mit meiner Braut geschlafen habe, stellte sich heraus, dass sie keine Jungfrau mehr war!« 15 Dann sollen die Eltern der Frau zu den führenden Männern gehen, die am Stadttor Gericht halten, und ihnen das Bettlaken aus der Hochzeitsnacht[a] zeigen. 16 Der Vater soll erklären: »Ich habe meine Tochter diesem Mann zur Frau gegeben. Aber jetzt liebt er sie nicht mehr. 17 Deshalb verleumdet er sie und behauptet, sie habe schon vorher mit jemandem geschlafen. Aber die Blutflecken auf diesem Tuch beweisen, dass sie noch Jungfrau war.« Die Eltern sollen das Laken vor den führenden Männern der Stadt ausbreiten.
18 Dann soll der Mann dafür ausgepeitscht werden, 19 dass er eine junge israelitische Frau verleumdet hat. Außerdem hat er 100 Silberstücke an seinen Schwiegervater zu zahlen. Er muss seine Frau behalten und darf sich sein Leben lang nicht von ihr trennen.
20 Hat er aber die Wahrheit gesagt und hat man keinen Beweis erbringen können, dass die Frau noch Jungfrau war, 21 dann soll man sie vor die Tür ihres Elternhauses führen, und die Männer der Stadt sollen sie dort steinigen. Sie muss sterben, weil sie sich im Haus ihrer Eltern wie eine Hure verhalten hat. Das ist eine Schande für ganz Israel. Ihr müsst alles Böse aus eurem Volk beseitigen!
22 Wenn ein Mann mit der Frau eines anderen schläft und man ertappt sie, dann müssen beide sterben. Duldet keine solche Schandtat in eurem Volk!
23 Trifft ein Mann in der Stadt eine junge Frau, die mit einem anderen verlobt ist, und er schläft mit ihr, 24 dann sollt ihr die zwei aus der Stadt bringen und steinigen. Beide müssen sterben: die junge Frau, weil sie nicht um Hilfe gerufen hat, obwohl sie in der Stadt war, und der Mann, weil er sich an der Braut eines anderen vergriffen hat. Ihr müsst das Böse aus eurem Volk beseitigen!
25 Wenn aber ein Mann draußen auf dem Feld ein verlobtes Mädchen vergewaltigt, soll nur er getötet werden. 26 Der jungen Frau soll nichts geschehen, denn sie hat nichts getan, was den Tod verdient! Sie ist wie von einem Mörder überfallen worden. 27 Obwohl sie geschrien hat, konnte es niemand dort draußen hören und ihr helfen.
28 Wenn herauskommt, dass sich ein Mann an einer jungen Frau vergangen hat, die noch nicht verlobt ist, 29 dann muss er ihrem Vater 50 Silberstücke zahlen und sie heiraten. Er darf sich sein Leben lang nicht von ihr trennen, weil er sie gezwungen hat, mit ihm zu schlafen.
Footnotes
- 22,15 Wörtlich: das Zeichen der Jungfräulichkeit.
Deuteronomy 22
Living Bible
Deuteronomy 22
Living Bible
22 “If you see someone’s ox or sheep wandering away, don’t pretend you didn’t see it; take it back to its owner. 2 If you don’t know who the owner is, take it to your farm and keep it there until the owner comes looking for it, and then give it to him. 3 The same applies to donkeys, clothing, or anything else you find. Keep it for its owner.
4 “If you see someone trying to get an ox or donkey onto its feet when it has slipped beneath its load,[a] don’t look the other way. Go and help!
5 “A woman must not wear men’s clothing, and a man must not wear women’s clothing. This is abhorrent to the Lord your God.
6 “If a bird’s nest is lying on the ground, or if you spy one in a tree, and there are young ones or eggs in it with the mother sitting in the nest, don’t take the mother with the young. 7 Let her go, and take only the young. The Lord will bless you for it.
8 “Every new house must have a guardrail around the edge of the flat rooftop to prevent anyone from falling off and bringing guilt to both the house and its owner.
9 “Do not sow other crops in the rows of your vineyard. If you do, both the crops and the grapes shall be confiscated by the priests.[b]
10 “Don’t plow with an ox and a donkey harnessed together.
11 “Don’t wear clothing woven from two kinds of thread: for instance, wool and linen.
12 “You must sew tassels on the four corners of your cloaks.
13-14 “If a man marries a girl, then after sleeping with her accuses her of having had premarital intercourse with another man, saying, ‘She was not a virgin when I married her,’ 15 then the girl’s father and mother shall bring the proof of her virginity to the city judges.
16 “Her father shall tell them, ‘I gave my daughter to this man to be his wife, and now he despises her 17-18 and has accused her of shameful things, claiming that she was not a virgin when she married; yet here is the proof.’ And they shall spread before the judges the blood-stained sheet from her marriage bed. The judges shall sentence the man to be whipped, 19 and fine him one hundred dollars[c] to be given to the girl’s father, for he has falsely accused a virgin of Israel. She shall remain his wife and he may never divorce her. 20 But if the man’s accusations are true, and she was not a virgin, 21 the judges shall take the girl to the door of her father’s home where the men of the city shall stone her to death. She has defiled Israel by flagrant crime, being a prostitute while living at home with her parents; and such evil must be cleansed from among you.
22 “If a man is discovered committing adultery, both he and the other man’s wife must be killed; in this way evil will be cleansed from Israel. 23-24 If a girl who is engaged is seduced within the walls of a city, both she and the man who seduced her shall be taken outside the gates and stoned to death—the girl because she didn’t scream for help, and the man because he has violated the virginity of another man’s fiancée. 25-27 In this way you will reduce crime among you. But if this deed takes place out in the country, only the man shall die. The girl is as innocent as a murder victim; for it must be assumed that she screamed, but there was no one to hear and rescue her out in the field. 28-29 If a man rapes a girl who is not engaged and is caught in the act, he must pay a fine[d] to the girl’s father and marry her; he may never divorce her. 30 A man shall not sleep with his father’s widow[e] since she belonged to his father.
Footnotes
- Deuteronomy 22:4 when it has slipped beneath its load, implied.
- Deuteronomy 22:9 the grapes shall be confiscated by the priests, literally, “lest the fulness of the fruit be consecrated.”
- Deuteronomy 22:19 one hundred dollars, literally, “a hundred shekels of silver.” The exact value cannot be determined.
- Deuteronomy 22:28 he must pay a fine, literally, “shall pay her father fifty shekels of silver.”
- Deuteronomy 22:30 his father’s widow, literally, “his father’s wife.” The general law against adultery protected her and other wives while their husbands were living.
Deuteronomy 22
New King James Version
Deuteronomy 22
New King James Version
Various Laws of Morality
22 “You (A)shall not see your brother’s ox or his sheep going astray, and [a]hide yourself from them; you shall certainly 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 to your own house, and it shall remain with you until your brother seeks it; then you shall restore it to him. 3 You shall do the same with his donkey, and so shall you do with his garment; with any lost thing of your brother’s, which he has lost and you have found, you shall do likewise; you [b]must not hide yourself.
4 (B)“You shall not see your brother’s donkey or his ox fall down along the road, and hide yourself from them; you shall surely help him lift them up again.
5 “A woman shall not wear anything that pertains to a man, nor shall a man put on a woman’s garment, for all who do so are [c]an abomination to the Lord your God.
6 “If a bird’s nest happens to be before you along the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, with the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, (C)you shall not take the mother with the young; 7 you shall surely let the mother go, and take the young for yourself, (D)that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days.
8 “When you build a new house, then you shall make a parapet for your roof, that you may not bring guilt of bloodshed on your household if anyone falls from it.
9 (E)“You shall not sow your vineyard with different kinds of seed, lest the yield of the seed which you have sown and the fruit of your vineyard be defiled.
10 (F)“You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.
11 (G)“You shall not wear a garment of different sorts, such as wool and linen mixed together.
12 “You shall make (H)tassels on the four corners of the clothing with which you cover yourself.
Laws of Sexual Morality
13 “If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, and (I)detests her, 14 and charges her with shameful conduct, and brings a bad name on her, and says, ‘I took this woman, and when I came to her I found she was not a virgin,’ 15 then the father and mother of the young woman shall take and bring out the evidence of the young woman’s virginity 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 wife, and he detests her. 17 Now he has charged her with shameful conduct, saying, “I found your daughter was not a virgin,” and yet these are the evidences 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 that man and punish him; 19 and they shall fine him one hundred shekels of silver and give them to the father of the young woman, because he has brought a bad name on a virgin of Israel. And she shall be his wife; he cannot divorce her all his days.
20 “But if the thing is true, and evidences of virginity are not found for the young woman, 21 then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with (J)stones, because she has (K)done a disgraceful thing in Israel, to play the harlot in her father’s house. (L)So you shall [d]put away the evil from among you.
22 (M)“If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then both of them shall die—the man that lay with the woman, and the woman; so you shall put away the evil from Israel.
23 “If a young woman who is a virgin is (N)betrothed to a husband, and a man finds her in the city and lies with her, 24 then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones, the young woman because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he (O)humbled his neighbor’s wife; (P)so you shall put away the evil from among you.
25 “But if a man finds a betrothed young woman in the countryside, and the man forces her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die. 26 But you shall do nothing to the young woman; there is in the young woman no sin deserving of death, for just as when a man rises against his neighbor and kills him, even so is this matter. 27 For he found her in the countryside, and the betrothed young woman cried out, but there was no one to save her.
28 (Q)“If a man finds a young woman who is a virgin, who is not betrothed, and he seizes her and lies with her, and they are found out, 29 then the man who lay with her shall give to the young woman’s father (R)fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife (S)because he has humbled her; he shall not be permitted to divorce her all his days.
30 (T)“A man shall not take his father’s wife, nor (U)uncover his father’s bed.
Footnotes
- Deuteronomy 22:1 ignore them
- Deuteronomy 22:3 may not avoid responsibility
- Deuteronomy 22:5 detestable
- Deuteronomy 22:21 purge the evil person
Deuteronomy 22
New International Version
Deuteronomy 22
New International Version
22 If you see your fellow Israelite’s ox or sheep straying, do not ignore it but be sure to take it back to its owner.(A) 2 If they do not live near you or if you do not know who owns it, take it home with you and keep it until they come looking for it. Then give it back. 3 Do the same if you find their donkey or cloak or anything else they have lost. Do not ignore it.
4 If you see your fellow Israelite’s donkey(B) or ox fallen on the road, do not ignore it. Help the owner get it to its feet.(C)
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.
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.(D) 7 You may take the young, but be sure to let the mother go,(E) so that it may go well with you and you may have a long life.(F)
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.(G)
9 Do not plant two kinds of seed in your vineyard;(H) if you do, not only the crops you plant but also the fruit of the vineyard will be defiled.[a]
10 Do not plow with an ox and a donkey yoked together.(I)
11 Do not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together.(J)
12 Make tassels on the four corners of the cloak you wear.(K)
Marriage Violations
13 If a man takes a wife and, after sleeping with her(L), dislikes her 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,” 15 then the young woman’s father and mother shall bring to the town elders at the gate(M) proof that she was a virgin. 16 Her father will say to the elders, “I gave my daughter in marriage to this man, but he dislikes her. 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, 18 and the elders(N) shall take the man and punish him. 19 They shall fine him a hundred shekels[b] of silver and give them to the young woman’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.
20 If, however, the charge is true(O) and no proof of the young woman’s virginity can be found, 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 an outrageous thing(P) in Israel by being promiscuous while still in her father’s house. You must purge the evil from among you.
22 If a man is found sleeping with another man’s wife, both the man who slept(Q) with her and the woman must die.(R) You must purge the evil from Israel.
23 If a man happens to meet in a town a virgin pledged to be married and he sleeps with her, 24 you shall take both of them to the gate of that town and stone them to death—the young woman 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.(S)
25 But if out in the country a man happens to meet a young woman pledged to be married and rapes her, only the man who has done this shall die. 26 Do nothing to the woman; she has committed no sin deserving death. This case is like that of someone who attacks and murders a neighbor, 27 for the man found the young woman out in the country, and though the betrothed woman screamed,(T) there was no one to rescue her.
28 If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered,(U) 29 he shall pay her father fifty shekels[c] of silver. He must marry the young woman, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.
30 A man is not to marry his father’s wife; he must not dishonor his father’s bed.[d](V)
Footnotes
- Deuteronomy 22:9 Or be forfeited to the sanctuary
- Deuteronomy 22:19 That is, about 2 1/2 pounds or about 1.2 kilograms
- Deuteronomy 22:29 That is, about 1 1/4 pounds or about 575 grams
- Deuteronomy 22:30 In Hebrew texts this verse (22:30) is numbered 23:1.
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