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Version 0.33.105, 15 February 2024

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Deuteronomy Chapter 22

1You shall not see your brother's ox or his sheep going astray and ignore it. You will make a point of returning it to your brother. 2And if your brother is not a near relation to you, and you do not know him, then you will accommodate the animal in your household, and it will be with you until your brother searches for it, when you will return it to him. 3And you will do likewise with his donkey, and you will do likewise with his garment, and you will do likewise with every lost item of your brother's which he has lost and which you find. You are not permitted to feign ignorance. 4You shall not see your brother's donkey or his ox fall by the way and ignore it. You will make a point of getting it up with him. 5There shall be no item of men's kit on a woman, and a man shall not wear a woman's clothing, for anyone doing these things is an abomination to the Lord your God. 6If, when outdoors, you come across a bird's nest in any tree or on the ground – a brood or eggs – and the mother bird is lying on the brood or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young. 7You will be sure to let the mother go, but you can take the young away, so that things go well with you, and you prolong your days. 8If you build a new house, then you shall make a parapet for your roof so that you do not incur blood-guilt in your house if anyone falls from it. 9You shall not sow your vineyard with diverse species, so that the fulness of the seed which you sow and the produce of the vineyard are not profaned. 10You shall not plough with an ox and a donkey together. 11You shall not wear compositely threaded material – wool and flax together. 12You shall make yourself tassels on the four sides of your vesture with which you cover yourself. 13If a man takes a wife, and he goes in to her, but he hates her, 14and he fabricates pretexts against her, and publicizes a scandal against her, and says, ‘I took this wife, and I went close to her, but I found her not to be a virgin’, 15then the father of the girl and her mother will take and bring out evidence of the virginity of the girl to the elders of the city at the gate. 16And the father of the girl shall say to the elders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man as a wife, but he hates her. 17And look, he has fabricated pretexts, saying, «I did not find your daughter to be a virgin, and this is the evidence of the virginity of my daughter.» ’ And they will spread the cloth before the elders of the city. 18And the elders of the city will take the man and chastise him, 19and they will fine him a hundred pieces of silver, and they will give them to the father of the girl, for he publicized a scandal against a virgin of Israel. And she shall be his wife; he shall not be able to divorce her all his days. 20But if this matter is true – the evidence of the girl's virginity is not found – 21then they will take the girl out to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city will stone her, and she will die, because she committed a folly in Israel by fornicating in her father's house, and you will eradicate the evil from your midst. 22If a man is found lying with a woman who is married to a husband, then they shall die – strictly both of them – the man lying with the woman, and the woman, and you will eradicate the evil from Israel. 23If a virgin girl is betrothed to a man, and another man finds her in the city and lies with her, 24then you will bring both of them out to the gate of that city and stone them, and they will die: the girl because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he ravished his neighbour's future wife, and you will eradicate the evil from your midst. 25But if the man finds the betrothed girl in the field, and the man overpowers her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her will die, 26and you will not do anything to the girl. The girl has not committed a capital sin, for as a man rises up against his neighbour and strikes him dead, so is this matter. 27For he found her in the field, and the betrothed girl cried out, but she did not have a deliverer. 28If a man finds a virgin girl who is not betrothed, and he seizes her and lies with her, and they are found, 29then the man lying with her will give the girl's father fifty pieces of silver, and she will be his wife, because he ravished her. He will not be allowed to divorce her all his days. 30A man shall not take his father's wife, and he shall not uncover his father's skirt.

Reference(s) in Chapter 22: v.24 ↔ John 8:5.

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