Deḇarim (Deuteronomy) 22

Deut 22:1 “When you see your brother’s ox or his sheep going straying
away, you shall not hide yourself from them. Return them to your brother
without fail.
Deut 22:2 “And if your brother is not near you, or if you do not know him,
then you shall bring it to your own house, and it shall be with you until your
brother seeks it, then you shall return it to him.
Deut 22:3 “And so you do with his donkey, and so you do with his garment,
and so you do with whatever your brother loses, which he has lost and you
have found. You are not allowed to hide yourself.
Deut 22:4 “When you see your brother’s donkey or his ox fall down on the
way, you shall not hide yourself from them. Help him raise them without fail.
Deut 22:5 “A woman does not wear that which pertains to a man, nor does a
man put on a woman’s garment, for whoever does this is an abomination to
יהוה your Elohim.
Deut 22:6 “When you come upon a bird’s nest along the way, in any tree or
on the ground, with young ones or eggs, with the mother sitting on the young
or on the eggs, do not take the mother with the young –
Deut 22:7 let the mother go without fail, and take the young for yourself, so
that it might be well with you, and that you shall prolong your days.
Deut 22:8 “When you build a new house, then you shall make a parapet for
your roof, so that you do not bring blood-guilt on your house when one falls
from it.
Deut 22:9 “Do not sow your vineyard with different kinds of seed, lest the
yield of the seed which you have sown and the fruit of your vineyard be
defiled.
Deut 22:10 “Do not plough with an ox and a donkey together.
Deut 22:11 “Do not put on a garment of different kinds, of wool and linen
together.
Deut 22:12 “Make tassels on the four corners of the garment with which you
cover yourself.
Deut 22:13 “When any man takes a wife, and shall go in to her, and shall
hate her,
Deut 22:14 and shall make abusive charges against her and bring an evil
name on her and say, ‘I took this woman, and when I came to her I did not
find her a maiden,’
Deut 22:15 then the father and mother of the young woman shall take and
bring out the proof of the girl’s maidenhood to the elders of the city at the
gate.
Deut 22:16 “And the girl’s father shall say to the elders, ‘I gave my daughter
to this man as wife, and he hates her.
Deut 22:17 ‘And see, he has made abusive charges against her, saying, “I
did not find your daughter a maiden,” and yet these are the proofs of my
daughter’s maidenhood.’ And they shall spread the garment before the elders
of the city.
Deut 22:18 “And the elders of that city shall take that man and punish him,
Deut 22:19 and fine him one hundred pieces of silver and give them to the
father of the young woman, because he has brought an evil name on a maiden
of Yisra’ĕl. And she is to be his wife, he is not allowed to put her away all
his days.
Deut 22:20 “But if the matter is true, that the girl was not found a maiden,
Deut 22:21 then they shall bring out the girl to the door of her father’s house,
and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has
done wickedness in Yisra’ĕl, to whore in her father’s house. Thus you shall
purge the evil from your midst.
Deut 22:22 “When a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband,
then both of them shall die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the
woman. Thus you shall purge the evil from Yisra’ĕl.
Deut 22:23 “When a girl who is a maiden is engaged to a husband, and a
man finds her in the city and lies with her,
Deut 22:24 then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and
shall stone them to death with stones, the girl because she did not cry out in
the city, and the man because he has humbled his neighbour’s wife. Thus you
shall purge the evil from your midst.
Deut 22:25 “But if a man finds the girl who is engaged in the field, and the
man seizes her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall
die.
Deut 22:26 “But you shall do no matter to the girl. The girl has no sin worthy
of death – for the matter is like a man who rises against his neighbour and
kills him –
Deut 22:27 for he found her in the field, and she cried out, the engaged girl,
but without anyone to save her.
Deut 22:28 “When a man finds a girl who is a maiden, who is not engaged,
and he seizes her and lies with her, and they are found out,
Deut 22:29 then the man who lay with her shall give to the girl’s father fifty
pieces of silver, and she is to be his wife because he has humbled her. He is
not allowed to put her away all his days.
Deut 22:30 “A man does not take his father’s wife, nor uncover his father’s
skirt.