Deuteronomy 22 in plain modern English. New Ground English Translation.
If you see your neighbor's 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 it 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 to 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 will go for you and you'll a
When you build a new house, put a around the edge of your roof so that you won't be for if they fall off it.
Don't plant two different kinds of seed in your vineyard. If you do, the entire harvest — both the seed you planted and the vineyard's produce — will be to the
Don't plow with an ox and a
Don't wear clothing made from a mix of and
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 and by saying, 'I married this woman, but when I slept with 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
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 the before the town elders.
The elders of that town will then take the man and
They'll fine him a of 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 this 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 on 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 and another person.
He found 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 and they are discovered,
the man who slept with must pay the young woman's father of She will become his wife because he and he can never divorce as long as he lives.
A man must not marry father's wife — he must not in this way.