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) ²If 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. ³Do the same if you find their donkey or cloak or anything else they have lost. Do not ignore it.

⁴If 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)

⁵A woman must not wear men’s clothing, nor a man wear women’s clothing, for the Lord your God detests anyone who does this.

⁶If 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) ⁷You 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)

⁸When 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)

⁹Do 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]

¹⁰Do not plow with an ox and a donkey yoked together.^(I)

¹¹Do not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together.^(J)

¹²Make tassels on the four corners of the cloak you wear.^(K)

Marriage Violations

¹³If a man takes a wife and, after sleeping with her^(L), dislikes her ¹⁴and 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,” ¹⁵then the young woman’s father and mother shall bring to the town elders at the gate^(M) proof that she was a virgin. ¹⁶Her father will say to the elders, “I gave my daughter in marriage to this man, but he dislikes her. ¹⁷Now 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, ¹⁸and the elders^(N) shall take the man and punish him. ¹⁹They 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.

²⁰If, however, the charge is true^(O) and no proof of the young woman’s virginity can be found, ²¹she 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.

²²If 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.

²³If a man happens to meet in a town a virgin pledged to be married and he sleeps with her, ²⁴you 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)

²⁵But 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. ²⁶Do nothing to the woman; she has committed no sin deserving death. This case is like that of someone who attacks and murders a neighbor, ²⁷for the man found the young woman out in the country, and though the betrothed woman screamed,^(T) there was no one to rescue her.

²⁸If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered,^(U) ²⁹he 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.

³⁰A 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.

Deuteronomy 22

The Message

22 ^1-3If you see your kinsman’s ox or sheep wandering off loose, don’t look the other way as if you didn’t see it. Return it promptly. If your fellow Israelite is not close by or you don’t know whose it is, take the animal home with you and take care of it until your fellow asks about it. Then return it to him. Do the same if it’s his donkey or a piece of clothing or anything else your fellow Israelite loses. Don’t look the other way as if you didn’t see it.

⁴If you see your fellow’s donkey or ox injured along the road, don’t look the other way. Help him get it up and on its way.

⁵A woman must not wear a man’s clothing, nor a man wear women’s clothing. This kind of thing is an abomination to God, your God.

^6-7When you come across a bird’s nest alongside the road, whether in a tree or on the ground, and the mother is sitting on the young or on the eggs, don’t take the mother with the young. You may take the babies, but let the mother go so that you will live a good and long life.

⁸When you build a new house, make a parapet around your roof to make it safe so that someone doesn’t fall off and die and your family become responsible for the death.

⁹Don’t plant two kinds of seed in your vineyard. If you do, you will forfeit what you’ve sown, the total production of the vineyard.

¹⁰Don’t plow with an ox and a donkey yoked together.

¹¹Don’t wear clothes of mixed fabrics, wool and linen together.

¹²Make tassels on the four corners of the cloak you use to cover yourself.

^13-19If a man marries a woman, sleeps with her, and then turns on her, calling her loose, giving her a bad name, saying, “I married this woman, but when I slept with her I discovered she wasn’t a virgin,” then the father and mother of the girl are to take her with the proof of her virginity to the town leaders at the gate. The father is to tell the leaders, “I gave my daughter to this man as wife and he turned on her, rejecting her. And now he has slanderously accused her, claiming that she wasn’t a virgin. But look at this, here is the proof of my daughter’s virginity.” And then he is to spread out her bloodstained wedding garment before the leaders for their examination. The town leaders then are to take the husband, whip him, fine him a hundred pieces of silver, and give it to the father of the girl. The man gave a virgin girl of Israel a bad name. He has to keep her as his wife and can never divorce her.

^20-21But if it turns out that the accusation is true and there is no evidence of the girl’s virginity, the men of the town are to take her to the door of her father’s house and stone her to death. She acted disgracefully in Israel. She lived like a whore while still in her parents’ home. Purge the evil from among you.

²²If a man is found sleeping with another man’s wife, both must die. Purge that evil from Israel.

^23-24If a man comes upon a virgin in town, a girl who is engaged to another man, and sleeps with her, take both of them to the town gate and stone them until they die—the girl because she didn’t yell out for help in the town and the man because he raped her, violating the fiancée of his neighbor. You must purge the evil from among you.

^25-27But if it was out in the country that the man found the engaged girl and grabbed and raped her, only the man is to die, the man who raped her. Don’t do anything to the girl; she did nothing wrong. This is similar to the case of a man who comes across his neighbor out in the country and murders him; when the engaged girl yelled out for help, there was no one around to hear or help her.

^28-29When a man comes upon a virgin who has never been engaged and grabs and rapes her and they are found out, the man who raped her has to give her father fifty pieces of silver. He has to marry her because he took advantage of her. And he can never divorce her.

³⁰A man may not marry his father’s ex-wife—that would violate his father’s rights.

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Второзаконие 22

Библия, синодално издание

22 ^(A)Кога видиш вола на брата си или овцата му загубени, не ги оставяй, а ги закарай на брата си;

²ако пък не бъде близо до тебе брат ти, или го не знаеш, прибери ги у дома си, и нека стоят у тебе, докато брат ти ги потърси, и тогава му ги върни;

³тъй постъпвай с осела му, тъй постъпвай с дрехите му, тъй постъпвай с всяка изгубена вещ на брата си, която той изгуби, а ти я намериш: от това не бива да се отклоняваш.

⁴^(B)Кога видиш осела на брата си или вола му, паднали на пътя, не ги оставяй, а ги дигни с него наедно.

⁵Жена не бива да носи мъжки дрехи, и мъж не бива да се облича в женско облекло: всеки, който прави това, гнусен е пред Господа, твоя Бог.

⁶^(C)Ако ти намериш по пътя си птиче гнездо на някое дърво или на земята, с птиченца или яйца, и майката седи на птиченцата или на яйцата, не вземай майката наедно с малките:

⁷майката пусни, а малките вземи, за да ти бъде добре, и да ти се продължат дните.

⁸^(D)Кога градиш нова къща, направи около покрива си ограда, за да не би ако падне някой от нея, да навлечеш кръв върху къщата си.

⁹^(E)Не засявай лозето си с два рода семена, за да не предадеш на заклятие рожбата от семената, които ти ще посееш и плода на лозето (си).

¹⁰Не ори с вол и осел наедно.

¹¹^(F)Не обличай дреха, тъкана смесено от вълна и лен наедно.

¹²^(G)Направи си ресни в четирите краища на наметалото си, с което се намяташ.

¹³Ако някой вземе жена, и влезе при нея, и я намрази,

¹⁴па я набедява в порочни дела и пусне лоши думи за нея, и каже: „взех тая жена, влязох при нея, и не я намерих девица“,

¹⁵то бащата на момата и майка ѝ нека вземат и изнесат девствените белези на момата пред градските стареи при портите;

¹⁶и бащата на момата да каже на стареите: дадох дъщеря си за жена на тоя човек, а (сега) той я намрази,

¹⁷и ето, набедява (я) в порочни дела, като казва: „не намерих дъщеря ти девица“; но ето девствените белези на дъщеря ми. И да разгънат долната дреха пред градските стареи.

¹⁸Тогава градските стареи да уловят мъжа и да го накажат,

¹⁹и да го глобят със сто сикли сребро, което да дадат на моминия баща, задето оня е пуснал лоши думи за израилска девица; тя пък да си остане негова жена, и той да не може да се разведе с нея през цял живот.

²⁰Ако ли казаното излезе истина, и момата не бъде намерена девица,

²¹^(H)то нека доведат момата при вратата на бащината ѝ къща, и градските жители да я пребият с камъни до смърт, понеже е извършила срамно нещо у Израиля, като е блудствувала в бащината си къща: тъй изтребвай злото изсред себе си.

²²^(I)Ако някой се хване да лежи с омъжена жена, то и двамата да се предадат на смърт: и мъжът, който е лежал с жената, и жената: тъй изтребвай злото от Израиля.

²³Ако някоя млада девица бъде сгодена за мъж, и някой я срещне в града и легне с нея,

²⁴^(J)то и двамата доведете при вратата на оня град и ги пребийте с камъни до смърт: момата, задето не е викала в града, а мъжът, задето е опорочил жената на ближния си: тъй изтребвай злото изсред себе си.

²⁵Ако пък някой срещне на полето мома сгодена, па я хване и легне с нея, да бъде погубен само мъжът, който е лежал с нея,

²⁶^(K)а на момата недей прави нищо; у момата няма грях за смърт: това е едно и същото, като някой да станеше върху ближния си и да го убиеше;

²⁷защото той я срещнал на полето, та сгодената мома и да е викала, не е имало кой да я спаси.

²⁸^(L)Ако някой срещне девица несгодена, па я хване и легне с нея и ги заварят, –

²⁹то оня, който е лежал с нея, трябва да даде на моминия баща петдесет (сикли) сребро, а тя да бъде негова жена, понеже той я опорочил; през целия си живот той не може да се разведе с нея.

³⁰^(M)Никой не трябва да взема жената на баща си и да открива края на бащината си завивка.

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. ²And 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. ³You 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; ⁷you 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, ¹⁴and 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,’ ¹⁵then 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. ¹⁶And the young woman’s father shall say to the elders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man as wife, and he detests her. ¹⁷Now 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. ¹⁸Then the elders of that city shall take that man and punish him; ¹⁹and 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, ²¹then 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, 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 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. ²⁶But 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. ²⁷For 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, ²⁹then 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

New International Version (NIV)