Deuteronomy 22:8-23:7

English Standard Version

⁸“When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof, that you may not bring the guilt of blood upon your house, if anyone should fall from it.

⁹^(A)“You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the whole yield be forfeited,^[a] the crop that you have sown and the yield of the vineyard. ¹⁰You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together. ¹¹You shall not wear cloth of wool and linen mixed together.

¹²^(B)“You shall make yourself tassels on the four corners of the garment with which you cover yourself.

Laws Concerning Sexual Immorality

¹³“If any man takes a wife and ^(C)goes in to her and then hates her ¹⁴and accuses her of misconduct and brings a bad name upon her, saying, ‘I took this woman, and when I came near her, I did not find in her evidence of virginity,’ ¹⁵then the father of the young woman and her mother shall take and bring out the evidence of her virginity to the elders of the city in the gate. ¹⁶And the father of the young woman shall say to the elders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man to marry, and he hates her; ¹⁷and behold, he has accused her of misconduct, saying, “I did not find in your daughter evidence of virginity.” And yet this is the evidence of my daughter's virginity.’ And they shall spread the cloak before the elders of the city. ¹⁸Then the elders of that city shall take the man and whip^[b] him, ¹⁹and they shall fine him a hundred shekels^[c] of silver and give them to the father of the young woman, because he has brought a bad name upon a virgin^[d] of Israel. And she shall be his wife. ^(D)He may not divorce her all his days. ²⁰But if the thing is true, that evidence of virginity was not found in the young woman, ²¹then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of her father's house, and ^(E)the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has ^(F)done an outrageous thing in Israel by whoring in her father's house. ^(G)So you shall purge the evil from your midst.

²²^(H)“If a man is found lying with the wife of another man, both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman. ^(I)So you shall purge the evil from Israel.

²³“If there is a ^(J)betrothed virgin, and a man meets her in the city and lies with her, ²⁴then 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 for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbor's wife. ^(K)So you shall purge the evil from your midst.

²⁵“But if in the open country a man meets a young woman who is betrothed, and the man seizes her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die. ²⁶But you shall do nothing to the young woman; she has committed no offense punishable by death. For this case is like that of a man attacking and murdering his neighbor, ²⁷because he met her in the open country, and though the betrothed young woman cried for help there was no one to rescue her.

²⁸^(L)“If a man meets a virgin who is not betrothed, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are found, ²⁹then the man who lay with her shall give to the father of the young woman fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has violated her. He may not divorce her all his days.

³⁰^[e] ^(M)“A man shall not take his father's wife, so that he does not ^(N)uncover his father's nakedness.^[f]

Those Excluded from the Assembly

23 “No one whose testicles are crushed or whose male organ is cut off shall enter the assembly of the Lord.

²^(O)“No one born of a forbidden union may enter the assembly of the Lord. Even to the tenth generation, none of his descendants may enter the assembly of the Lord.

³^(P)“No Ammonite or Moabite may enter the assembly of the Lord. Even to the tenth generation, none of them may enter the assembly of the Lord forever, ⁴^(Q)because they did not meet you with bread and with water on the way, when you came out of Egypt, and because they ^(R)hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of ^(S)Mesopotamia, to curse you. ⁵But the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam; instead the Lord your God turned ^(T)the curse into a blessing for you, because the Lord your God loved you. ⁶You ^(U)shall not seek their peace or their prosperity all your days forever.