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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Deuteronomy 22 JPS Tanakh 1917</title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/jps/deuteronomy/22.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/deuteronomy/22.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/deuteronomy/22-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/">Bible</a> > <a href="../">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> > Deuteronomy 22</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../deuteronomy/21.htm" title="Deuteronomy 21">◄</a> Deuteronomy 22 <a href="../deuteronomy/23.htm" title="Deuteronomy 23">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">JPS Tanakh 1917</div><div class="chap"><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Thou shalt not see thy brother’s ox or his sheep driven away, and hide thyself from them; thou shalt surely bring them back unto thy brother. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, and thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it home to thy house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother require it, and thou shalt restore it to him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And so shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do with his garment; and so shalt thou do with every lost thing of thy brother’s, which he hath lost, and thou hast found; thou mayest not hide thyself. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Thou shalt not see thy brother’s ass or his ox fallen down by the way, and hide thyself from them; thou shalt surely help him to lift them up again. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>A woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment; for whosoever doeth these things is an abomination unto the LORD thy God. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>If a bird’s nest chance to be before thee in the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young; <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, but the young thou mayest take unto thyself; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a parapet for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thy house, if any man fall from thence. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with two kinds of seed; lest the fulness of the seed which thou hast sown be forfeited together with the increase of the vineyard. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Thou shalt not wear a mingled stuff, wool and linen together. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Thou shalt make thee twisted cords upon the four corners of thy covering, wherewith thou coverest thyself. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her, <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>and lay wanton charges against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say: ‘I took this woman, and when I came nigh to her, I found not in her the tokens of virginity’; <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel’s virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And the damsel’s father shall say unto the elders: ‘I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her; <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>and, lo, he hath laid wanton charges, saying: I found not in thy daughter the tokens of virginity; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter’s virginity.’ And they shall spread the garment before the elders of the city. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And 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>And they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel; and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>But if this thing be true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the damsel; <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die; because she hath wrought a wanton deed in Israel, to play the harlot in her father’s house; so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman; so shalt thou put away the evil from Israel. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>If there be a damsel that is a virgin betrothed unto a man, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her; <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die: the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour’s wife; so thou shalt put away the evil from the midst of thee. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>But if the man find the damsel that is betrothed in the field, and the man take hold of her, and lie with her; then the man only that lay with her shall die. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death; for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth 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 betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, that is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found; <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he hath humbled her; he may not put her away all his days. <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/22-30.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>A man shall not take his father’s wife, and shall not uncover his father’s skirt.</div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">THE HOLY SCRIPTURES<br>ACCORDING TO THE MASORETIC TEXT<br>A NEW TRANSLATION<p><a href="//www.jps.org/">Jewish Publication Society</a><br>1917<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../deuteronomy/21.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Deuteronomy 21"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Deuteronomy 21" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../deuteronomy/23.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Deuteronomy 23"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Deuteronomy 23" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/deuteronomy/22-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /> <table align="center" width="90%" style="max-width:900px"><tr><td> <div id="rcjsload_a957f3"></div> <script type="text/javascript"> (function() { var referer="";try{if(referer=document.referrer,"undefined"==typeof referer||""==referer)throw"undefined"}catch(exception){referer=document.location.href,(""==referer||"undefined"==typeof referer)&&(referer=document.URL)}referer=referer.substr(0,700); 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