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Deuteronomy
22
Thou shalt not pass by if thou seest thy brother's ox,
or his sheep go astray: but thou shalt bring them back
to thy brother.
And if thy brother be not nigh, or thou know him not:
thou shalt bring them to thy house, and they shall be
with thee until thy brother seek them, and receive them.
Thou shalt do in like manner with his ass, and with
his raiment, and with every thing that is thy brother's,
which is lost: if thou find it, neglect it not as pertaining
to another.
If thou see thy brother's ass or his ox to be fallen
down in the way, thou shalt not slight it, but shalt
lift it up with him.
A woman shall not be clothed with man's apparel, neither
shall a man use woman's apparel : for he that doeth
these things is abominable before God.
If thou find as thou walkest by the way, a bird's nest
in a tree, or on the ground, and the dam sitting upon
the young or upon the eggs: thou shalt not take her
with her young:
But shalt let her go, keeping the young which thou hast
caught: that it may be well with thee, and thou mayst
live a long time.
When thou buildest a new house, thou shalt make a battlement
to the roof round about: lest blood be shed in thy house,
and thou be guilty, if any one slip, and fall down headlong.
Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest
both the seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of
the vineyard, be sanctified together.
Thou shalt not plough with an ox and an ass together.
Thou shalt not wear a garment that is woven of woollen
and linen together.
Thou shalt make strings in the hem at the four corners
of thy cloak, wherewith thou shalt be covered.
If a man marry a wife, and afterwards hate her,
And seek occasions to put her away, laying to her charge
a very ill name, and say: I took this woman to wife,
and going in to her, I found her not a virgin:
Her father and mother shall take her, and shall bring
with them the tokens of her virginity to the ancients
of the city that are in the gate:
And the father shall say: I gave my daughter unto this
man to wife: and because he hateth her,
He layeth to her charge a very ill name, so as to say:
I found not thy daughter a virgin: and behold these
are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they
shall spread the cloth before the ancients of the city:
And the ancients of that city shall take that man, and
beat him,
Condemning him besides in a hundred sides of silver,
which he shall give to the damsel's father, because
he hath defamed by a very ill name a virgin of Israel:
and he shall have her to wife, and may not put her away
all the days of his life.
But if what he charged her with be true, and virginity
be not found in the damsel:
They shall cast her out of the doors of her father's
house, and the men of the city shall stone her to death,
and she shall die: because she hath done a wicked thing
in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house:
and thou shalt take away the evil out of the midst of
thee.
If a man lie with another man's wife, they shall both
die, that is to say, the adulterer and the adulteress:
and thou shalt take away the evil out of Israel.
If a man have espoused a damsel that is a virgin, and
some one find her in the city, and lie with her,
Thou shalt bring them both out to the gate of that city,
and they shall be stoned: the damsel, because she cried
not out, being in the city: the man, because he hath
humbled his neighbour's wife. And thou shalt take away
the evil from the midst of thee.
But if a man find a damsel that is betrothed, in the
field, and taking hold of her, lie with her, he alone
shall die:
The damsel shall suffer nothing, neither is she guilty
of death : for as a robber riseth against his brother,
and taketh away his life, so also did the damsel suffer:
She was alone in the field: she cried, and there was
no man to help her.
If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, who is not
espoused, and taking her, lie with her, and the matter
come to judgment :
He that lay with her shall give to the father of the
maid fifty sides of silver, and shall have her to wife,
because he hath humbled her: he may not put her away
all the days of his life.
No man shall take his father's wife, nor remove his
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