Old Testament · Law

Deuteronomy chapter 22

If you see your ox or sheep , don’t just look the other way. Make sure you bring it back to its owner.If the owner doesn’t live nearby, or you don’t know who they are, bring the animal to your own home and until the owner comes looking for it. Then give it back.Do the same with a donkey, a piece of clothing, or anything else your neighbor loses that you find. You can’t just ignore it.If you see your neighbor’s donkey or ox on the road, don’t just walk past. Help them get the animal back on its feet.A woman must not wear men’s clothing, and a man must not wear women’s clothing. Anyone who does this is Yahweh your God.If you come across a bird’s nest along the road — whether in a tree or on the ground — with the mother sitting on the chicks or eggs, don’t take the mother along with the young.You must let the mother go, though you may take the young for yourself. This way and you’ll .When you build a new house, put a around the edge of your roof so that you won’t be if they fall off it.Don’t plant two different kinds of seed in your vineyard. If you do, the whole harvest , both the seed you sowed and what the vineyard produces.Don’t plow with an .Don’t wear clothing made from a mix of .Attach to the four corners of the cloak you wear.Suppose a man marries a woman, sleeps with her, and then decides he doesn’t want her.He makes up accusations against her and by saying, ‘I married this woman, but when I slept with her, I found out she wasn’t a .’Then the young woman’s father and mother must bring the evidence of her virginity to the town elders at .The young woman’s father will say to the elders, ‘I gave my daughter in marriage to this man, but he doesn’t want her anymore.’‘Now he’s made up accusations, saying he found out my daughter wasn’t a virgin. But here’s the evidence of my daughter’s virginity.’ Then they’ll spread before the town elders.The elders of that town will then take the man and .They’ll fine him and give it to the young woman’s father, because the man a young woman of Israel. She will remain his wife, and he can never divorce her as long as he lives.But if the accusation turns out to be true — if there’s no evidence that the young woman was a virgin —then the men of her town will bring her to the doorway of her father’s house and stone her to death. She did in Israel by being sexually unfaithful while still in her father’s house. You must from among you.If a man is found sleeping with another man’s wife, both of them must die — the man who slept with her and the woman. You must remove this corruption from Israel.If a man comes across a young woman in a town — a virgin who is to another man — and sleeps with her,you must bring both of them to the gate of that town and stone them to death — the young woman because she was in a town and didn’t cry out for help, and the man because he another man’s wife. You must remove this corruption from among you.But if the man encounters the engaged young woman out in the open countryside and , only the man must die.Don’t do anything to the young woman — she hasn’t done anything deserving death. This situation is just like when someone another person.He found her in the open countryside — the engaged young woman may have cried out, but there was no one around to .If a man encounters a young woman who is a virgin but not engaged, and he and sleeps with her, and they are discovered,the man who slept with her must pay the young woman’s father . She will become his wife because he , and he can never divorce her as long as he lives.A man must not marry his father’s wife — he must not in this way.