Deuteronomy 22

Deuteronomy 22:1

If you see your brother's ox or sheep straying, you must not ignore it; be sure to return it to your brother.

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Deuteronomy 22:2

If your brother does not live near you, or if you do not know who he is, you are to take the animal home to remain with you until your brother comes seeking it; then you can return it to him.

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Deuteronomy 22:3

And you shall do the same for his donkey, his cloak, or anything your brother has lost and you have found. You must not ignore it.

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Deuteronomy 22:4

If you see your brother's donkey or ox fallen on the road, you must not ignore it; you must help him lift it up.

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Deuteronomy 22:5

A woman must not wear men’s clothing, and a man must not wear women’s clothing, for whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD your God.

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Deuteronomy 22:6

If you come across a bird’s nest with chicks or eggs, either in a tree or on the ground along the road, and the mother is sitting on the chicks or eggs, you must not take the mother along with the young.

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Deuteronomy 22:7

You may take the young, but be sure to let the mother go, so that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days.

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But thou shalt The extirpation of any species of birds , whether edible or birds of prey , is often attended with serious consequences , and is always productive of evil; to prevent which was the object of this law. Palestine is situated in a climate producing poisonous snakes and scorpions , and between deserts and mountains , from which it would be inundated by them , as well as with immense swarms of flies , locusts , and mice , if the birds which feed upon them were extirpated. In a moral point of view , it may have been intended to inculcate a spirit of mercy and kindness , and to prevent the exercise of cruelty even towards a sparrow; for he who is guilty of such cruelty will , if circumstances be favourable , be cruel to his fellow-creatures.

Deuteronomy 22:8

If you build a new house, you are to construct a railing around your roof, so that you do not bring bloodguilt on your house if someone falls from it.

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Deuteronomy 22:9

Do not plant your vineyard with two types of seed; if you do, the entire harvest will be defiled—both the crop you plant and the fruit of your vineyard.

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fruit of thy seed Heb. fulness of thy seed

Deuteronomy 22:10

Do not plow with an ox and a donkey yoked together.

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Deuteronomy 22:11

Do not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together.

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Deuteronomy 22:12

You are to make tassels on the four corners of the cloak you wear.

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quarters Heb. wings

Deuteronomy 22:13

Suppose a man marries a woman, has relations with her, and comes to hate her,

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Deuteronomy 22:14

and he then accuses her of shameful conduct and gives her a bad name, saying, “I married this woman and had relations with her, but I discovered she was not a virgin.”

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Deuteronomy 22:17

And now he has accused her of shameful conduct, saying, ‘I discovered that your daughter was not a virgin.’ But here is the proof of her virginity.” And they shall spread out the cloth before the city elders.

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Deuteronomy 22:18

Then the elders of that city shall take the man and punish him.

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Deuteronomy 22:19

They are also to fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the young woman’s father, because this man has given a virgin of Israel a bad name. And she shall remain his wife; he must not divorce her as long as he lives.

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Deuteronomy 22:21

she shall be brought to the door of her father’s house, and there the men of her city will stone her to death. For she has committed an outrage in Israel by being promiscuous in her father’s house. So you must purge the evil from among you.

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Deuteronomy 22:22

If a man is found lying with another man’s wife, both the man who slept with her and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.

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Deuteronomy 22:23

If there is a virgin pledged in marriage to a man, and another man encounters her in the city and sleeps with her,

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Deuteronomy 22:24

you must take both of them out to the gate of that city and stone them to death—the young woman because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he has violated his neighbor’s wife. So you must purge the evil from among you.

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and ye shall stone In these laws , the betrothed damsel was considered as the wife of the man to whom she was engaged , though they had not come together; and therefore the crime was adjudged adultery. But a charitable supposition is admitted in the damsel's favour , in case she was found in a solitary place.

Deuteronomy 22:25

But if the man encounters a betrothed woman in the open country, and he overpowers her and lies with her, only the man who has done this must die.

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Deuteronomy 22:26

Do nothing to the young woman, because she has committed no sin worthy of death. This case is just like one in which a man attacks his neighbor and murders him.

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Deuteronomy 22:27

When he found her in the field, the betrothed woman cried out, but there was no one to save her.

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Deuteronomy 22:28

If a man encounters a virgin who is not pledged in marriage, and he seizes her and lies with her, and they are discovered,

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Deuteronomy 22:29

then the man who lay with her must pay the young woman's father fifty shekels of silver, and she must become his wife because he has violated her. He must not divorce her as long as he lives.

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Deuteronomy 22:30

A man is not to marry his father’s wife, so that he will not dishonor his father’s marriage bed.

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