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Make sure you take it back. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>If the owner doesn't live near you or you don't know who owns it, take the animal home with you. Keep it until the owner comes looking for it. Then give it back. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Do the same if you find a donkey, some clothes, or anything else that another Israelite may have lost. Don't pretend that you don't know what to do. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>If you see another Israelite's donkey or ox lying on the road, don't pretend that you don't see it. Make sure you help him get it back on its feet.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>A woman must never wear anything men would wear, and a man must never wear women's clothes. Whoever does this is disgusting to the LORD your God.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Whenever you're traveling and find a nest containing chicks or eggs, this is what you must do. If the mother bird is sitting on the nest, never take her with the chicks. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>You may take the chicks, but make sure you let the mother go. Then things will go well for you, and you will live for a long time.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Whenever you build a new house, put a railing around the edge of the roof. Then you won't be responsible for a death at your home if someone falls off the roof.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Never plant anything between the rows in your vineyard. Otherwise, you will have to give everything that grows there to the holy place. This includes the crop you planted and the grapes from the vineyard.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Never plow with an ox and a donkey harnessed together.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Never wear clothes made of wool and linen woven together.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Make tassels on the four corners of the shawl you wear over your clothes.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>A man might marry a woman, sleep with her, and decide he doesn't like her. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Then he might make up charges against her and ruin her reputation by saying, "I married this woman. But when I slept with her, I found out she wasn't a virgin." <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>The girl's father and mother must go to the city gate where the leaders of the city are and submit the evidence that their daughter was a virgin. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>The girl's father will tell the leaders, "I gave my daughter in marriage to this man, but he doesn't like her. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Now he has made up charges against her. He says he found out that my daughter wasn't a virgin. But here's the evidence!" Then the girl's parents must spread out the cloth in front of the leaders of the city. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>The leaders of that city must take the man and punish him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>They will fine him 21/4 pounds of silver and give it to the girl's father. The husband ruined the reputation of an Israelite virgin. She will continue to be his wife, and he can never divorce her as long as he lives.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>But if the charge is true, and no evidence that the girl was a virgin can be found, <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>they must take the girl to the entrance of her father's house. The men of her city must stone her to death because she has committed such a godless act in Israel: She had sex before marriage, while she was still living in her father's house. You must get rid of this evil.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>If a man is caught having sexual intercourse with a married woman, both that man and the woman must die. You must get rid of this evil in Israel.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>This is what you must do when a man has sexual intercourse with a virgin who is engaged to another man. If this happens in a city, <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>take them to the gate of the city and stone them to death. The girl must die because she was in a city and didn't scream for help. The man must die because he had sex with another man's wife. You must get rid of this evil.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>But if a man rapes an engaged girl out in the country, then only the man must die. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Don't do anything to the girl. She has not committed a sin for which she deserves to die. This is like the case of someone who attacks and murders another person. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>The man found the girl out in the country. She may have screamed for help, but no one was there to rescue her.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>This is what you must do when a man rapes a virgin who isn't engaged. When the crime is discovered, <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>the man who had sexual intercourse with her must give the girl's father 11/4 pounds of silver, and she will become his wife. Since he raped her, he can never divorce her as long as he lives. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>A man must never marry his father's wife because this would disgrace his father.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">GOD'S WORD® is a copyrighted work of <a href="//www.godsword.org" target="_top">God's Word to the Nations</a>. Quotations are used by permission. Copyright 1995 by God's Word to the Nations. 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