Deuteronomy 22
KJV Easy Read Bible

1You shall not see your brother’s ox or his sheep go astray, and hide yourself from them: you shall in any case bring them again to your brother.

2And if your brother be not near to you, or if you know him not, then you shall bring it to your own house, and it shall be with you until your brother seek after it, and you shall restore it to him again.

3In like manner shall you do with his ass; and so shall you do with his raiment; and with all lost thing of your brother’s, which he has lost, and you have found, shall you do likewise: you may not hide yourself.   clothing

4You shall not see your brother’s ass or his ox fall down by the way, and hide yourself from them: you shall surely help him to lift them up again.   road

5The woman shall not wear that which pertains to a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so are abomination to the Lord your God.   detestable

6If a bird’s nest chance to be before you 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, you shall not take the dam with the young:   mother

7But you shall in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to you; that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days.

8When you build a new house, then you shall make a battlement for your roof, that you bring not blood upon your house, if any man fall from there.   protective wall

9You shall not sow your vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of your seed which you have sown, and the fruit of your vineyard, be defiled.   various

10You shall not plow with an ox and an ass together.   2 COR 6:14

11You shall not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woolen and linen together.   fabrics

12You shall make you fringes upon the four quarters of your vesture, wherewith you cover yourself.   corners; cloak

Laws of Sexual Morality

13If any man take a wife, and go in to her, and hate her,

14And 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:   virgin

15Then shall the father of the damsel and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel’s virginity to the elders of the city in the gate:   young woman

16And the damsel’s father shall say to the elders, I gave my daughter to this man as a wife and he hates her;

17And, lo, he has given occasions of speech against her, saying, I found not your 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.

18And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him;

19And they shall amerce him in a hundred shekels of silver, and give them to the father of the damsel, because he has 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.   fine

20But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel:

21Then 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 has wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father’s house: so shall you put evil away from among youp.   execute; done a disgraceful thing

22If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shall you put away evil from Israel.

23If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed to a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;

24Then youp shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and youp shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he has humbled his neighbor’s wife: so you shall put away evil from among youp.

25But 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:

26But to the damsel you shall do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man rise against his neighbor, and slays him, even so is this matter:

27For he found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her.

28If 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;

29Then the man that lay with her shall give to the damsel’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he has humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.

30A man shall not take his father’s wife, nor discover his father’s skirt.   1 COR 5:1 | uncover





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