Chapter 22 Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep go astray,
and hide thyself from them.
Thou shalt in any case bring them again unto thy brother.
And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not, then thou shalt
bring it unto thine own house, and it shall be with thee until thy
brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore it to him again.
In like manner shalt thou do with his ass, and so shalt thou do with his raiment,
and with all lost things of thy brother's, which he hath lost, and thou hast found,
shalt thou do likewise.
Thou mayest not hide thyself.
Thou shalt not see thy brother's ass or his ox fall down by the way, and hide
thyself from them.
Thou shalt surely help him to lift them up again.
The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man
put on a woman's garment, for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord thy God.
If a bird's nest chants to be before thee in the way, in any tree, or on the ground,
whether they be young ones or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young,
or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young, but thou shalt in any
wise let the dam go, and take the young to thee, that it may be well with thee,
and that thou mayest prolong thy days.
When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy
roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence.
Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with diverse seeds, lest the fruit of thy seed,
which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard be defiled.
Thou shalt not plough with an ox and an ass together.
Thou shalt not wear a garment of diverse sorts, as of woolen and linen together.
Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou
coverest thyself.
If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her, and give occasions of
speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman,
and when I came to her, I found her not a maid, then shall the father of the damsel,
and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity unto the
elders of the city in the gate.
And the damsel's father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man
to wife, and he hateth her.
And, lo, he hath given occasions of speech against her, saying, I found not thy
daughter a maid, and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity.
And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city, and the elders of that
city shall take that man, and chastise him, and they shall immerse him in an
hundred shackles of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel,
because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel, and she shall be
his wife.
He may not put her away all his days.
But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel,
then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house,
and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die, because she hath
wrought folly in Israel to play the whore in her father's house.
So shalt thou put evil away from among you.
If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall
both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman.
So shalt thou put away evil from Israel.
If a damsel, that is a virgin, be betrothed unto an husband, and a man
find her in the city, and lie with her, then ye shall bring them both out under
the gate of the city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die,
the damsel because she cried not, being in the city, and the man because he
hath humbled his neighbor's wife.
So thou shalt put away evil from among you.
But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her,
and lie with her, then the man only that lay with her shall die.
But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing.
There is in the damsel no sin worthy of death.
For as when a man riseth against his neighbor, and slayeth him, even so is this
matter.
For he found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel cried,
and there was none to save her.
If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on
her, and lie with her, and they be found, then the man that lay with her shall give
unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife,
because he hath humbled her.
He may not put her away all his days.
A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt,