Deuteronomy 22

About Deuteronomy Deuteronomy records Moses' last speeches, retelling the law and urging Israel to love and obey God in the new land.

Thou shalt not see thy brother’s ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them again unto thy brother.SelectedDeuteronomy 22:1Ask

And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it unto thine own house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore it to him again.SelectedDeuteronomy 22:2Ask

In like manner shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do with his raiment; and with all lost thing of thy brother’s, which he hath lost, and thou hast found, shalt thou do likewise: thou mayest not hide thyself.SelectedDeuteronomy 22:3Ask

Thou shalt not see thy brother’s ass or his ox fall down by the way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely help him to lift them up again.SelectedDeuteronomy 22:4Ask

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.SelectedDeuteronomy 22:5Ask

If a bird’s nest chance to be before thee 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, thou shalt not take the dam with the young:SelectedDeuteronomy 22:6Ask

But thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to thee; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days.SelectedDeuteronomy 22:7Ask

When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence.SelectedDeuteronomy 22:8Ask

Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled.SelectedDeuteronomy 22:9Ask

Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.SelectedDeuteronomy 22:10Ask

Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together.SelectedDeuteronomy 22:11Ask

Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself.SelectedDeuteronomy 22:12Ask

If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,SelectedDeuteronomy 22:13Ask

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:SelectedDeuteronomy 22:14Ask

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:SelectedDeuteronomy 22:15Ask

And the damsel’s father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her;SelectedDeuteronomy 22:16Ask

And, lo, he hath 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.SelectedDeuteronomy 22:17Ask

And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him;SelectedDeuteronomy 22:18Ask

And they shall amerce him in an 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.SelectedDeuteronomy 22:19Ask

But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel:SelectedDeuteronomy 22:20Ask

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 folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father’s house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.SelectedDeuteronomy 22:21Ask

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 shalt thou put away evil from Israel.SelectedDeuteronomy 22:22Ask

If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;SelectedDeuteronomy 22:23Ask

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 evil from among you.SelectedDeuteronomy 22:24Ask

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:SelectedDeuteronomy 22:25Ask

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:SelectedDeuteronomy 22:26Ask

For he found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her.SelectedDeuteronomy 22:27Ask

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;SelectedDeuteronomy 22:28Ask

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.SelectedDeuteronomy 22:29Ask

A man shall not take his father’s wife, nor discover his father’s skirt.SelectedDeuteronomy 22:30Ask

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