Deuteronomy 22:1-18 ▼

1 You shall not see the ox of your brother or his sheep going astray, and hide yourself from them; you shall surely turn them back to your brother.

2 And if your brother is not near to you, or if you do not know him, you shall bring it to the middle of your own house, and it shall remain with you until your brother seeks it—and you shall restore it to him.

3 And so shall you do with his donkey, and so shall you do with his garment, and so shall you do with any lost thing of your brother that is lost by him and you have found it. You must not hide yourself.

4 You shall not see the donkey of your brother or his ox fall down along the road, and hide yourself from them; you shall surely raise them up with him.

5 Anything that pertains to a man shall not be upon a woman, and a man shall not put on the garment of a woman; for an abomination to YHWH your God is anyone doing these things.

6 If the nest of a bird is encountered to your face along the way in any tree or on the ground, with chicks or eggs, and with the mother sitting on the chicks or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the sons;

7 you shall surely send away the mother, and the young take for yourself, that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days.

8 When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof, that you may not bring blood on your house if anyone falls down from it.

9 You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the yield of the seed that you have sown and the fruit of your vineyard be defiled.

10 You shall not plow with an ox and with a donkey together.

11 You shall not wear mixed material, wool and linen mixed together.

12 You shall make tassels for yourself on the four corners of the clothing with which you cover yourself.

13 If any man takes a wife, and he goes in to her and detests her,

14 and he charges her with shameful conduct and brings on her a bad name and says, “This woman I took, and I came to her, and I found her not a virgin,”

15 the father and the young woman—and mother—shall take and bring out the tokens of virginity of the young woman to the elders of the city at the gate.

16 And the father of the young woman shall say to the elders, “I gave my daughter to this man as a wife, and he detests her.

17 And behold, he has charged her with shameful conduct, saying, ‘I did not find your daughter a virgin,’ and these are the tokens of the virginity of my daughter.” And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.

18 And the elders of that city shall take the man, and they shall discipline him.