Deuteronomy 22
King James Version
22 Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them again unto thy brother.
2 And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it unto thine own house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore it to him again.
3 In like manner shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do with his raiment; and with all lost thing of thy brother's, which he hath lost, and thou hast found, shalt thou do likewise: thou mayest not hide thyself.
4 Thou shalt not see thy brother's ass or his ox fall down by the way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely help him to lift them up again.
5 The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord thy God.
6 If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young:
7 But thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to thee; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days.
8 When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence.
9 Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled.
10 Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.
11 Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together.
12 Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself.
13 If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,
14 And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid:
15 Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate:
16 And the damsel's father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her;
17 And, lo, he hath given occasions of speech against her, saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.
18 And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him;
19 And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.
20 But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel:
21 Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.
22 If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.
23 If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;
24 Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you.
25 But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her: then the man only that lay with her shall die.
26 But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so is this matter:
27 For he found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her.
28 If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;
29 Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.
30 A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt.
Deuteronomy 22
Lexham English Bible
22 “You shall not watch the ox of your neighbor or his sheep or goat straying and ignore them; certainly you shall return them to your neighbor. 2 And if your countryman[a] is not near you or you do not know who he is,[b] then you shall bring it to your household,[c] and it shall be[d] with you until your countryman seeks after it,[e] and you shall return it to him. 3 And thus also you shall do regarding[f] his donkey, and thus you shall do concerning[g] his garment, and so you shall do with respect to[h] all of the lost property of your countryman[i] that is lost from him and you find it; you are not allowed to withhold help.
4 “You shall not see the donkey of your neighbor or his ox fallen on the road and you ignore them; certainly you must help them get up along with him.
5 “The apparel of a man shall not be put on[j] a woman, and a man shall not wear the clothing of a woman, because everyone who does these things is detestable to Yahweh your God.
6 “If a bird’s nest is found before you[k] on the road in any tree or on the ground, and there are chicks or eggs, and the mother is lying down on the chicks or the eggs, you shall not take the mother along with the young; 7 you shall certainly let the mother go, but you may take the young for yourselves;[l] do this so that it may go well[m] for you and you may live long in the land.[n]
8 “When you build a new house then[o] you shall make a parapet wall[p] for your roof, so that you will not bring bloodguilt on your house if anyone should fall from it.[q]
9 “You shall not sow your vineyard with differing kinds of seed, so that you shall not forfeit the whole harvest,[r] both the seed that you sowed and the yield of the vineyard.
10 “You shall not plow with an ox and with a donkey yoked together.
11 “You shall not wear woven material made of wool and linen mixed together.
12 “You shall make tassels for yourselves[s] on the four corners of your clothing with which you cover yourself.
13 “If a man takes a woman and he has sex with her,[t] but he then dislikes her,[u] 14 and he accuses her falsely,[v] and he defames her,[w] and he says ‘This woman I took and I lay with her and I discovered that she was not a virgin,’[x] 15 then in defense the father of the young woman shall take, along with her mother, and together they must bring out the evidence of the virginity of the young woman to display it to the elders of the city at the city gate.[y] 16 And then the father of the young woman shall say to the elders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man as wife, but he now dislikes[z] her, 17 and now look he has accused her falsely,[aa] saying, “I did not find your daughter a virgin,”[ab] but here is evidence of the virginity of my daughter’; and they shall spread the cloth out before[ac] the elders of the city. 18 Then the elders of that city shall take the man, and they shall discipline him. 19 Then they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver, and they shall give them to the father of the young woman, for he defamed an Israelite young woman,[ad] and she shall become his wife;[ae] he will not be allowed to divorce her[af] all his days.
20 “But if this charge[ag] was true, and the signs of virginity were not found[ah] for the young woman, 21 and then they shall bring out the young woman to the doorway of the house of her father, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones, and she shall die, because she did a disgraceful thing in Israel by playing the harlot[ai] in the house of her father, and so you shall purge the evil from your midst.
22 “If a man is found lying with a married woman,[aj] then they shall both die; both of them,[ak] the man who lay with the woman and the woman also, so you shall purge the evil from Israel.
23 “If it happens that a young woman, a virgin, is engaged to a man, and a man finds her in the town and lies with her, 24 then you shall bring out both of them[al] to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them with stones so that they shall die, the young woman because she did not cry out in the town, and the man because[am] he violated his neighbor’s wife; and so you shall purge the evil from your midst.
25 “But if the man finds the young engaged woman in the field and the man overpowers her and he has sex with her,[an] then the man only[ao] must die who lay[ap] with her. 26 But you shall not do anything[aq] to the young woman, for there is not reckoned against[ar] the young woman a sin deserving death;[as] it is similar to when[at] a man rises up against his neighbor and murders him, a fellow human being,[au] just so is this case,[av] 27 for he found her in the field, the engaged young woman cried out, but there was no[aw] rescuer to help her.[ax]
28 “If a man finds a young woman, a virgin who is not engaged, and he seizes her and he has sex with her[ay] and they are caught, 29 then the man who lay with her[az] shall give to the father of the young woman fifty shekels of silver, and she shall become his wife[ba] because[bb] he violated her, and he is not allowed to divorce her during his lifetime.[bc] 30 [bd] A man may not take the wife of his father, and so he may not dishonor his father.[be]
Footnotes
- Deuteronomy 22:2 Or “brother”
- Deuteronomy 22:2 Literally “him”
- Deuteronomy 22:2 Literally “to the midst of your house”
- Deuteronomy 22:2 Or “remain”
- Deuteronomy 22:2 Literally “the seeking of your countryman after it”
- Deuteronomy 22:3 Or “to”
- Deuteronomy 22:3 Or “to”
- Deuteronomy 22:3 Or “to”
- Deuteronomy 22:3 Or “brother”
- Deuteronomy 22:5 Literally “on”
- Deuteronomy 22:6 Literally “before your face”
- Deuteronomy 22:7 Hebrew “for you”
- Deuteronomy 22:7 Literally “he/it is good”
- Deuteronomy 22:7 Literally “and you may make long/extend days”
- Deuteronomy 22:8 Hebrew “and”
- Deuteronomy 22:8 Or “fence/rail”
- Deuteronomy 22:8 Literally “if should fall the falling from it”
- Deuteronomy 22:9 Literally “the entire fullness”
- Deuteronomy 22:12 Hebrew “for you”
- Deuteronomy 22:13 Literally “and he goes unto her”
- Deuteronomy 22:13 Literally “hates her”
- Deuteronomy 22:14 Literally “he puts to her deeds of words”
- Deuteronomy 22:14 Literally “he brings forth against her a bad name”
- Deuteronomy 22:14 Literally “I found not with her virginity”
- Deuteronomy 22:15 Literally “toward the city gate”
- Deuteronomy 22:16 Literally “hates”
- Deuteronomy 22:17 Literally “he put deeds of words”
- Deuteronomy 22:17 Literally “to your daughter virginity”
- Deuteronomy 22:17 Literally “to the face of”
- Deuteronomy 22:19 Literally “for he brought out a bad name against the virgin of Israel”
- Deuteronomy 22:19 Literally “and for him she shall become as wife”
- Deuteronomy 22:19 Literally “to send her out”
- Deuteronomy 22:20 Literally “the thing”
- Deuteronomy 22:20 Literally “and they were not found evidence of virginity”
- Deuteronomy 22:21 Literally “to play the harlot/to prostitute herself”
- Deuteronomy 22:22 Literally “with a woman, a young woman of a husband”
- Deuteronomy 22:22 Literally “also/even the two of them”
- Deuteronomy 22:24 Literally “the two of them”
- Deuteronomy 22:24 Literally “because of the fact that”
- Deuteronomy 22:25 Literally “he lies down with her”
- Deuteronomy 22:25 Or “alone”
- Deuteronomy 22:25 Or “slept”
- Deuteronomy 22:26 Hebrew “a thing”
- Deuteronomy 22:26 Hebrew “to”
- Deuteronomy 22:26 Literally “a sin of death”
- Deuteronomy 22:26 Literally “for as that”
- Deuteronomy 22:26 Literally “a soul/individual person”
- Deuteronomy 22:26 Literally “thing/matter”
- Deuteronomy 22:27 Hebrew “there was not”
- Deuteronomy 22:27 Literally “for her”
- Deuteronomy 22:28 Literally “he lies with her”
- Deuteronomy 22:29 Literally “the man the one lying with her”
- Deuteronomy 22:29 Literally “for/as a wife”
- Deuteronomy 22:29 Literally “in place of”
- Deuteronomy 22:29 Literally “all of his days”
- Deuteronomy 22:30 Deuteronomy 22:30–23:25 in the English Bible is 23:1–26 in the Hebrew Bible
- Deuteronomy 22:30 Literally “not he may reveal the skirt of the garment of his father”
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