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Chapter 22  
     
1.
 Thou shall not see thy brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: you shall in any case bring them again unto thy brother.
  
2.
 And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if you know him not, then you shall bring it unto your own house, and it shall be with you until thy brother seek after it, and you shall restore it to him again.
  
3.
 In like manner shall you do with his ass; and so shall you do with his raiment; and with all lost thing of thy brother's, which he has lost, and you have found, shall you do likewise: you may not hide thyself.
  
4.
 Thou shall not see thy brother's ass or his ox fall down by the way, and hide thyself from them: you shall surely help him to lift them up again.
  
5.
 The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord thy God.

 
6.
 If a bird's nest chance to be before you in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, you shall not take the dam with the young:
  
7.
 But you shall in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to thee; that it may be well with thee, and that you may prolong thy days.
  
8.
 When you buildest a new house, then you shall make a battlement for thy roof, that you bring not blood upon your house, if any man fall from that place.
  
9.
 Thou shall not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which you have sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled.
  
10.
 Thou shall not plow with an ox and an ass together.
  
11.
 Thou shall not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together.
  
12.
 Thou shall make you fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith you coverest thyself.
  
13.
 If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,
  
14.
 And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid:
  
15.
 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:
  
16.
 And the damsel's father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hates her;
  
17.
 And, lo, he has given occasions of speech against her, saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.
  
18.
 And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him;
  
19.
 And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he has 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.
  
20.
 But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel:
  
21.
 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 has wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: so shall you put evil away from among you.
  
22.
 If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shall you put away evil from Israel.
  
23.
 If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;
  
24.
 Then you shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and you shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he has humbled his neighbour's wife: so you shall put away evil from among you.
  
25.
 But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her: then the man only that lay with her shall die.
  
26.
 But unto the damsel you shall 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:
  
27.
 For he found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her.
  
28.
 If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;
  
29.
 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 has humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.
  
30.
 A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt.
  

 
 
 

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