Deuteronomy, starting at chapter 22
{22:1} You shall not see your brother's ox or his sheep go astray,
and hide yourself from them: you shall surely bring them again to your
brother. {22:2} 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 seek after it, and you shall restore it to
him. {22:3} So you shall do with his donkey; and so you shall do with
his garment; and 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. {22:4} 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. {22:5} 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 the LORD your God. {22:6} If a
bird's nest chance to be before you in 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: {22:7} you
shall surely let the hen go, but the young you may take to yourself;
that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days.
{22:8} When you build a new house, then you shall make a battlement
for your roof, that you don't bring blood on your house, if any man
fall from there. {22:9} You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds
of seed, lest the whole fruit be forfeited, the seed which you have
sown, and the increase of the vineyard. {22:10} You shall not plow
with an ox and a donkey together. {22:11} You shall not wear a mixed
stuff, wool and linen together. {22:12} You shall make yourselves
[1>]fringes[<1] on the four borders of your cloak, with which you
cover yourself.
{22:13} If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, and hates her,
{22:14} and accuses her of shameful things, and brings up an evil name
on her, and says, "I took this woman, and when I came near to her, I
didn't find in her the tokens of virginity;" {22:15} then shall the
father of the young lady, and her mother, take and bring forth the
tokens of the young lady's virginity to the elders of the city in the
gate; {22:16} and the young lady's father shall tell the elders, "I
gave my daughter to this man to wife, and he hates her; {22:17} and
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. {22:18} The elders of that city shall take the
man and chastise him; {22:19} and they shall fine him one hundred
shekels of silver, and give them to the father of the young lady,
because he has brought up an evil name on a virgin of Israel: and she
shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.
{22:20} But if this thing be true, that the tokens of virginity were
not found in the young lady; {22:21} 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 put
away the evil from the midst of you. {22:22} If a man be found lying
with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die,
the man who lay with the woman, and the woman: so you shall put away
the evil from Israel. {22:23} If there is a young lady who is a virgin
pledged to be married to a husband, and a man find her in the city,
and lie with her; {22:24} 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 put away the evil
from the midst of you. {22:25} But if the man find the lady who is
pledged to be married in the field, and the man force her, and lie
with her; then the man only who lay with her shall die: {22:26} 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; {22:27} for he found her in the field, the
pledged to be married lady cried, and there was none to save her.
{22:28} If a man find a lady who is a virgin, who is not pledged to be
married, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;
{22:29} then the man who lay with her shall give to the lady'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. {22:30} A man shall
not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover his father's skirt.
{23:1} He who is wounded in the stones, or has his privy member cut
off, shall not enter into the assembly of the LORD. {23:2} A bastard
shall not enter into the assembly of the LORD; even to the tenth
generation shall none of his enter into the assembly of the LORD.
{23:3} An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into the assembly of
the LORD; even to the tenth generation shall none belonging to them
enter into the assembly of the LORD forever: {23:4} because they
didn't meet you with bread and with water in the way, when you came
forth out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son
of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you. {23:5} Nevertheless
the LORD your God wouldn't listen to Balaam; but the LORD your God
turned the curse into a blessing to you, because the LORD your God
loved you. {23:6} You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity
all your days forever. {23:7} You shall not abhor an Edomite; for he
is your brother: you shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you lived as
a foreigner in his land. {23:8} The children of the third generation
who are born to them shall enter into the assembly of the LORD. {23:9}
When you go forth in camp against your enemies, then you shall keep
yourselves from every evil thing. {23:10} If there is among you any
man who is not clean by reason of that which happens him by night,
then shall he go outside of the camp. He shall not come within the
camp: {23:11} but it shall be, when evening comes on, he shall bathe
himself in water; and when the sun is down, he shall come within the
camp. {23:12} You shall have a place also outside of the camp, where
you shall go forth abroad: {23:13} and you shall have a paddle among
your weapons; and it shall be, when you sit down abroad, you shall dig
therewith, and shall turn back and cover that which comes from you:
{23:14} for the LORD your God walks in the midst of your camp, to
deliver you, and to give up your enemies before you; therefore your
camp shall be holy, that he may not see an unclean thing in you, and
turn away from you. {23:15} You shall not deliver to his master a
servant who is escaped from his master to you: {23:16} he shall dwell
with you, in the midst of you, in the place which he shall choose
within one of your gates, where it pleases him best: you shall not
oppress him. {23:17} There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of
Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.
{23:18} You shall not bring the hire of a prostitute, or the wages of
a dog, into the house of the LORD your God for any vow: for even both
these are an abomination to the LORD your God. {23:19} You shall not
lend on interest to your brother; interest of money, interest of food,
interest of anything that is lent on interest: {23:20} to a foreigner
you may lend on interest; but to your brother you shall not lend on
interest, that the LORD your God may bless you in all that you put
your hand to, in the land where you go in to possess it. {23:21} When
you shall vow a vow to the LORD your God, you shall not be slack to
pay it: for the LORD your God will surely require it of you; and it
would be sin in you. {23:22} But if you shall forbear to vow, it shall
be no sin in you. {23:23} That which is gone out of your lips you
shall observe and do; according as you have vowed to the LORD your
God, a freewill offering, which you have promised with your mouth.
{23:24} When you come into your neighbor's vineyard, then you may eat
of grapes your fill at your own pleasure; but you shall not put any in
your vessel. {23:25} When you come into your neighbor's standing
grain, then you may pluck the ears with your hand; but you shall not
move a sickle to your neighbor's standing grain.
{24:1} When a man takes a wife, and marries her, then it shall be,
if she find no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly
thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and give it
in her hand, and send her out of his house. {24:2} When she is
departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's wife.
{24:3} If the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of
divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house; or if
the latter husband die, who took her to be his wife; {24:4} her former
husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife,
after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD:
and you shall not cause the land to sin, which the LORD your God gives
you for an inheritance. {24:5} When a man takes a new wife, he shall
not go out in the army, neither shall he be assigned any business: he
shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has
taken. {24:6} No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to
pledge; for he takes a life in pledge. {24:7} If a man be found
stealing any of his brothers of the children of Israel, and he deal
with him as a slave, or sell him; then that thief shall die: so you
shall put away the evil from the midst of you. {24:8} Take heed in the
plague of leprosy, that you observe diligently, and do according to
all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them,
so you shall observe to do. {24:9} Remember what the LORD your God did
to Miriam, by the way as you came forth out of Egypt. {24:10} When you
do lend your neighbor any kind of loan, you shall not go into his
house to get his pledge. {24:11} You shall stand outside, and the man
to whom you do lend shall bring forth the pledge outside to you.
{24:12} If he be a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge;
{24:13} you shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes
down, that he may sleep in his garment, and bless you: and it shall be
righteousness to you before the LORD your God. {24:14} You shall not
oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he be of your
brothers, or of your foreigners who are in your land within your
gates: {24:15} in his day you shall give him his hire, neither shall
the sun go down on it; for he is poor, and sets his heart on it: lest
he cry against you to the LORD, and it be sin to you. {24:16} The
fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the
children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to
death for his own sin. {24:17} You shall not deprive the foreigner, or
the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow's clothing in pledge;
{24:18} but you shall remember that you were a bondservant in Egypt,
and the LORD your God redeemed you there: therefore I command you to
do this thing. {24:19} When you reap your harvest in your field, and
have forgot a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it: it
shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow;
that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
{24:20} When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the
boughs again: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and
for the widow. {24:21} When you harvest your vineyard, you shall not
glean it after yourselves: it shall be for the foreigner, for the
fatherless, and for the widow. {24:22} You shall remember that you
were a bondservant in the land of Egypt: therefore I command you to do
this thing.
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Footnotes:
[1] {22:12} or, tassles
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