Chapter 22
1 You shall not see your brother’s ox or his sheep go astray and hide yourself from them . You shall surely bring them again to your brother.
2 If your brother isn’t near to you , or if you don’t know him , then you shall bring it home to your house , and it shall be with you until your brother comes looking for it , and you shall restore it to him .
3 So you shall do with his donkey . So you shall do with his garment . So you shall do with every lost thing of your brother’s, which he has lost and you have found . You may not hide yourself .
4 You shall not see your brother’s donkey or his ox fallen down by the way , and hide yourself from them . You shall surely help him to lift them up again .
5 A woman shall not wear men ’s clothing , neither shall a man put on women’s clothing ; for whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh your God .
6 If you come across a bird ’s nest on the way , in any tree or on the ground , with young ones or eggs , and the hen sitting on the young , or on the eggs , you shall not take the hen with the young .
7 You shall surely let the hen go , but the young you may take for yourself, that it may be well with you , and that you may prolong your days .
8 When you build a new house , then you shall make a railing around your roof , so that you don’t bring blood on your house if anyone falls from there .
9 You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed , lest all the fruit be defiled , the seed which you have sown , and the increase of the vineyard .
10 You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together .
11 You shall not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together .
12 You shall make yourselves fringes on the four corners of your cloak with which you cover yourself .
13 If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her , hates her ,
14 accuses her of shameful things , gives her a bad name , and says , " I took this woman , and when I came near to her , I didn’t find in her the tokens of virginity ;"
15 then the young lady ’s father and mother shall take and bring the tokens of the young lady ’s virginity to the elders of the city in the gate .
16 The young lady ’s father shall tell the elders , " I gave my daughter to this man as his wife, and he hates her .
17 Behold , he has accused her of shameful things , saying , ‘ I didn’t find in your daughter the tokens of virginity ;’ and yet these are the tokens of my daughter ’s virginity ." They shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city .
18 The elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him .
19 They shall fine him one hundred shekels of silver , and give them to the father of the young lady , because he has given a bad name to a virgin of Israel . She shall be his wife. He may not put her away all his days .
20 But if this thing is true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the young lady ,
21 then they shall bring out the young lady to the door of her father’s house , and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones , because she has done folly in Israel , to play the prostitute in her father’s house . So you shall remove the evil from among you .
22 If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband , then they shall both die , the man who lay with the woman and the woman. So you shall remove the evil from Israel .
23 If there is a young lady who is a virgin pledged to be married to a husband, and a man finds her in the city , and lies with her ,
24 then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city , and you shall stone them to death with stones ; the lady , because she didn’t cry , being in the city ; and the man , because he has humbled his neighbor ’s wife. So you shall remove the evil from among you .
25 But if the man finds the lady who is pledged to be married in the field , and the man forces her and lies with her , then only the man who lay with her shall die ;
26 but to the lady you shall do nothing . There is in the lady no sin worthy of death ; for as when a man rises against his neighbor and kills him , even so is this matter ;
27 for he found her in the field , the pledged to be married lady cried , and there was no one to save her .
28 If a man finds a lady who is a virgin , who is not pledged to be married, grabs her and lies with her , and they are found ,
29 then the man who lay with her shall give to the lady ’s father fifty shekels of silver . She shall be his wife, because he has humbled her . He may not put her away all his days .
30 A man shall not take his father’s wife, and shall not uncover his father’s skirt.