CHAPTER 22
If you see
your brother’s
ox
or
sheep
straying,
you must not
ignore it;
be sure to return it
to your brother.
If
your brother
does not
live near you,
or if you do not
know who he is,
you are to take
the animal
home
to remain
with you
until
your brother
comes seeking it;
then you can return it to him.
And you shall do
the same
for his donkey,
his cloak,
or anything
your brother
has lost
and you have found.
You must
not
ignore it.
If you see
your brother’s
donkey
or
ox
fallen
on the road,
you must not
ignore it;
you must help him lift it up.
A woman
must not
wear
men’s
clothing,
and a man
must not
wear
women’s
clothing,
for
whoever
does
these things
is detestable
to the LORD
your God.
If
you come across
a bird’s
nest
with chicks
or
eggs,
either in a tree
or
on
the ground
along the road,
and the mother
is sitting
on
the chicks
or
eggs,
you must not
take
the mother
along with
the young.
You may take
the young,
but be sure to let the mother
go,
so that
it may be well
with you
and that you may prolong
your days.
If
you build
a new
house,
you are to construct
a railing
around your roof,
so that you do not
bring
bloodguilt
on your house
if
someone
falls
from it.
Do not
plant
your vineyard
with two types of seed,
or
the entire harvest
will be defiled—
both the crop
you plant
and the fruit
of your vineyard.
and then accuses her
of shameful conduct
and gives
her a bad
name,
saying,
“I married
this
woman
and had relations with
her,
but I discovered
she was not
a virgin.”
Then the young woman’s
father
and mother
shall bring
the proof of her
virginity
to
the city
elders
at the gate
And now
he
has accused her
of shameful conduct,
saying,
‘I discovered
your daughter
was not
a virgin.’
But here is the proof
of her
virginity.”
And they shall spread out
the cloth
before
the city
elders.
They are also to fine
him
a hundred shekels
of silver
and give them
to the young woman’s
father,
because
this man has given
an Israelite
virgin
a bad
name.
And she shall remain
his wife;
he must not
divorce
her as
long as he lives.
she
shall be brought
to
the door
of her father’s
house,
and there the men
of her city
will stone
her to death.
For
she has committed
an outrage
in Israel
by being promiscuous
in her father’s
house.
You must purge
the evil
from among you.
If
a man
is found
lying
with
another man’s
wife,
both the man
who slept
with
her
and the woman
must die.
You must purge
the evil
from Israel.
If
there is
a virgin
pledged in marriage
to a man,
and another man
encounters her
in the city
and sleeps
with her,
you must take both
of them out
to
the gate
of that
city
and stone
them to death—
the young woman
because
she did not
cry out
in the city,
and the man
because
he has violated
his neighbor’s
wife.
You must purge
the evil
from among you.
But if
the man
encounters
a betrothed
woman
in the open country,
and he
overpowers her
and rapes
her,
only
the man
who
has done this
must die.
Do
nothing
to the young woman,
because
she
has committed no
sin
worthy of death.
This
case
is just like
one in which a man
attacks
his neighbor
and murders him.
When
he found
her in the field,
the betrothed
woman
cried out,
but there was no
one to rescue her.
If
a man
encounters
a virgin
who
is not
pledged in marriage,
and he overpowers her
and rapes
her,
and they are discovered,
the man
who raped her
must pay
the young woman’s
father
fifty shekels
of silver,
and
she must become
his wife
because
he has violated her.
He must not
divorce
her as
long as he lives.