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You shall surely bring them again to your brother. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>If your brother isn’t near to you, or if you don’t know him, then you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall be with you until your brother comes looking for it, and you shall restore it to him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>So you shall do with his donkey. So you shall do with his garment. So you shall do with every lost thing of your brother’s, which he has lost and you have found. You may not hide yourself. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>You shall not see your brother’s donkey or his ox fallen down by the way, and hide yourself from them. You shall surely help him to lift them up again. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>A woman shall not wear men’s clothing, neither shall a man put on women’s clothing; for whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh your God. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>If you come across a bird’s nest on the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the hen sitting on the young, or on the eggs, you shall not take the hen with the young. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>You shall surely let the hen go, but the young you may take for yourself, that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>When you build a new house, then you shall make a railing around your roof, so that you don’t bring blood on your house if anyone falls from there. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest all the fruit be defiled, the seed which you have sown, and the increase of the vineyard. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>You shall not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>You shall make yourselves fringes on the four corners of your cloak with which you cover yourself. </p> <p class="hdg">Marriage Violations</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, hates her, <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>accuses her of shameful things, gives her a bad name, and says, “I took this woman, and when I came near to her, I didn’t find in her the tokens of virginity;” <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>then the young lady’s father and mother shall take and bring the tokens of the young lady’s virginity to the elders of the city in the gate. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>The young lady’s father shall tell the elders, “I gave my daughter to this man as his wife, and he hates her. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Behold, he has accused her of shameful things, saying, ‘I didn’t find in your daughter the tokens of virginity;’ and yet these are the tokens of my daughter’s virginity.” They shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>The elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>They shall fine him one hundred shekels of silver, and give them to the father of the young lady, because he has given a bad name to a virgin of Israel. She shall be his wife. He may not put her away all his days. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>But if this thing is true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the young lady, <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>then they shall bring out the young lady 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 folly in Israel, to play the prostitute in her father’s house. So you shall remove the evil from among you. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both die, the man who lay with the woman and the woman. So you shall remove the evil from Israel. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>If there is a young lady who is a virgin pledged to be married to a husband, and a man finds her in the city, and lies with her, <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones; the lady, because she didn’t cry, being in the city; and the man, because he has humbled his neighbor’s wife. So you shall remove the evil from among you. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>But if the man finds the lady who is pledged to be married in the field, and the man forces her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die; <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>but to the lady you shall do nothing. There is in the lady no sin worthy of death; for as when a man rises against his neighbor and kills him, even so is this matter; <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>for he found her in the field, the pledged to be married lady cried, and there was no one to save her. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>If a man finds a lady who is a virgin, who is not pledged to be married, grabs her and lies with her, and they are found, <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>then the man who lay with her shall give to the lady’s father fifty shekels of silver. She shall be his wife, because he has humbled her. He may not put her away all his days. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>A man shall not take his father’s wife, and shall not uncover his father’s skirt. </p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. It is in the Public Domain. Please feel free to copy and distribute it freely. Thank you to Michael Paul Johnson for making this work available. 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