Deuteronomy 22

Modern

Literal

Various Laws

¹If you see your brother’s ox or sheep straying, you must not ignore it;^a be sure to return it to your brother.

¹You shall not see the ox of your brother or his sheep going astray, and hide yourself from them; you shall surely turn them back to your brother.

²If 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.

²And if your brother is not near to you, or if you do not know him, you shall bring it to the middle of your own house, and it shall remain with you until your brother seeks it—and you shall restore it to him.

³And 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.

³And so shall you do with his donkey, and so shall you do with his garment, and so shall you do with any lost thing of your brother that is lost by him and you have found it. You must not hide yourself.

⁴If you see your brother’s donkey or ox fallen on the road, you must not ignore it; you must help him lift it up.

⁴You shall not see the donkey of your brother or his ox fall down along the road, and hide yourself from them; you shall surely raise them up with him.

⁵A 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.

⁵Anything that pertains to a man shall not be upon a woman, and a man shall not put on the garment of a woman; for an abomination to YHWH your God is anyone doing these things.

⁶If 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.

⁶If the nest of a bird is encountered to your face along the way in any tree or on the ground, with chicks or eggs, and with the mother sitting on the chicks or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the sons;

⁷You 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.

⁷you shall surely send away the mother, and the young take for yourself, that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days.

⁸If 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.

⁸When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof, that you may not bring blood on your house if anyone falls down from it.

⁹Do not plant your vineyard with two types of seed; if you do, the entire harvest will be defiled—^aboth the crop you plant and the fruit of your vineyard.

⁹You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the yield of the seed that you have sown and the fruit of your vineyard be defiled.

¹⁰Do not plow with an ox and a donkey yoked together.

¹⁰You shall not plow with an ox and with a donkey together.

¹¹Do not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together.

¹¹You shall not wear mixed material, wool and linen mixed together.

¹²You are to make tassels on the four corners of the cloak you wear.

¹²You shall make tassels for yourself on the four corners of the clothing with which you cover yourself.

Marriage Violations

¹³Suppose a man marries a woman, has relations with her, and comes to hate her,

¹³If any man takes a wife, and he goes in to her and detests her,

¹⁴and he 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.”

¹⁴and he charges her with shameful conduct and brings on her a bad name and says, “This woman I took, and I came to her, and I found her not a virgin,”

¹⁵Then the young woman’s father and mother shall bring the proof of her virginity to the city elders at the gate

¹⁵the father and the young woman—and mother—shall take and bring out the tokens of virginity of the young woman to the elders of the city at the gate.

¹⁶and say to the elders, “I gave my daughter in marriage to this man, but he has come to hate her.

¹⁶And the father of the young woman shall say to the elders, “I gave my daughter to this man as a wife, and he detests her.

¹⁷And now he has accused her of shameful conduct, saying, ‘I discovered that 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.

¹⁷And behold, he has charged her with shameful conduct, saying, ‘I did not find your daughter a virgin,’ and these are the tokens of the virginity of my daughter.” And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.

¹⁸Then the elders of that city shall take the man and punish him.

¹⁸And the elders of that city shall take the man, and they shall discipline him.

¹⁹They are also to fine him a hundred shekels of silver^a and give them to the young woman’s father, because this man has given a virgin of Israel a bad name. And she shall remain his wife; he must not divorce her as long as he lives.

¹⁹And they shall fine him a 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 wife to him; he may not divorce her all his days.

²⁰If, however, this accusation is true, and no proof of the young woman’s virginity can be found,

²⁰But if this thing is true and tokens of virginity are not found for the young woman,

²¹she 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. So you must purge the evil from among you.^a

²¹then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of the house of her father, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones to death, because she has done a disgraceful thing in Israel to play the prostitute in the house of her father. And you shall put away the evil from among you.

²²If 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.

²²If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall die, even the two of them, the man that lay with the woman and the woman. And you shall put away the evil from Israel.

²³If there is a virgin pledged in marriage to a man, and another man encounters her in the city and sleeps with her,

²³If there is a young woman, a virgin, betrothed to a husband, and a man finds her in the city and lies with her,

²⁴you 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. So you must purge the evil from among you.

²⁴then you shall bring out the two of them to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them with stones to death—the young woman on account of the matter, because she did not cry out in the city, and the man upon this thing, because he humbled the wife of his neighbor. And you shall put away the evil from among you.

²⁵But if the man encounters a betrothed woman in the open country, and he overpowers her and lies with her, only the man who has done this must die.

²⁵But if in the countryside the man finds a young woman betrothed, and the man forces her and lies with her, only the man who lay with her shall die.

²⁶Do 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.

²⁶And to the young woman you shall not do anything; in the young woman there is no sin of death. For as when a man rises against his neighbor and kills him, even so is this matter.

²⁷When he found her in the field, the betrothed woman cried out, but there was no one to save her.

²⁷For he found her in the countryside and cried out the young woman betrothed, and there was no one to save her.

²⁸If a man encounters a virgin who is not pledged in marriage, and he seizes her and lies with her, and they are discovered,

²⁸If a man finds a young woman, 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 must pay the young woman’s father fifty shekels of silver,^a and she must become his wife because he has violated her. He must not divorce her as long as he lives.

²⁹then the man who lay with her shall give to the father of the young woman fifty shekels of silver, and to him she shall be wife upon that he has humbled her. He shall not be permitted to divorce her all his days.

³⁰A man is not to marry his father’s wife, so that he will not dishonor his father’s marriage bed.^a

³⁰A man shall not take the wife of his father, and he shall not uncover the skirt of his father.