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Deuteronomy 22 (WEBP)
[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.
[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 comes looking for it, and you shall restore it to him.
[3] So you shall do with his donkey. So you shall do with his garment. 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.
[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.
[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 Yahweh your God.
[6] If you come across a bird’s nest on 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.
[7] You shall surely let the hen go, but the young you may take for yourself, that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days.
[8] When you build a new house, then you shall make a railing around your roof, so that you don’t bring blood on your house if anyone falls from there.
[9] You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest all the fruit be defiled, the seed which you have sown, and the increase of the vineyard.
[10] You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.
[11] You shall not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together.
[12] You shall make yourselves fringes§ on the four corners of your cloak with which you cover yourself.
[13] If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, hates her,
[14] accuses her of shameful things, gives her a bad name, and says, “I took this woman, and when I came near to her, I didn’t find in her the tokens of virginity;”
[15] then the young lady’s father and mother shall take and bring the tokens of the young lady’s virginity to the elders of the city in the gate.
[16] The young lady’s father shall tell the elders, “I gave my daughter to this man as his wife, and he hates her.
[17] 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.
[18] The elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him.
[19] They shall fine him one hundred shekels of silver,° and give them to the father of the young lady, because he has given a bad name to a virgin of Israel. She shall be his wife. He may not put her away all his days.
[20] But if this thing is true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the young lady,
[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 remove the evil from among you.
[22] If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both die, the man who lay with the woman and the woman. So you shall remove the evil from Israel.
[23] If there is a young lady who is a virgin pledged to be married to a husband, and a man finds her in the city, and lies with her,
[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 remove the evil from among you.
[25] But if the man finds the lady who is pledged to be married in the field, and the man forces her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die;
[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;
[27] for he found her in the field, the pledged to be married lady cried, and there was no one to save her.
[28] If a man finds a lady who is a virgin, who is not pledged to be married, grabs her and lies with her, and they are found,
[29] then the man who lay with her shall give to the lady’s father fifty shekels° of silver. 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, and shall not uncover his father’s skirt.
Deuteronomy 22:12 or, tassels
Deuteronomy 22:19 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 100 shekels is about a kilogram or 2.2 pounds.
Deuteronomy 22:29 A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.
Scripture quotations are taken from The World English Bible™ of eBible.org, 2020 stable text edition. It is in the public domain.
King James w/Strong’s #s
Deuteronomy 22 (KJVS)
[1] Thou shalt not see H7200 (8799) thy brother’s H251 ox H7794 or his sheep H7716 go astray H5080 (8737), and hide H5956 (8694) thyself from them: thou shalt in any case H7725 (8687) bring them again H7725 (8686) unto thy brother H251.
[2] And if thy brother H251 [be] not nigh H7138 unto thee, or if thou know H3045 (8804) him not, then thou shalt bring H622 (8804) it unto H8432 thine own house H1004, and it shall be with thee until thy brother H251 seek H1875 (8800) after it, and thou shalt restore it to him again H7725 (8689).
[3] In like manner H3651 shalt thou do H6213 (8799) with his ass H2543; and so shalt thou do H6213 (8799) with his raiment H8071; and with all lost thing H9 of thy brother’s H251, which he hath lost H6 (8799), and thou hast found H4672 (8804), shalt thou do H6213 (8799) likewise: thou mayest H3201 (8799) not hide H5956 (8692) thyself.
[4] Thou shalt not see H7200 (8799) thy brother’s H251 ass H2543 or his ox H7794 fall down H5307 (8802) by the way H1870, and hide H5956 (8694) thyself from them: thou shalt surely H6965 (8687) help him to lift [them] up again H6965 (8686).
[5] The woman H802 shall not wear that which pertaineth H3627 unto a man H1397, neither shall a man H1397 put H3847 (8799) on a woman’s H802 garment H8071: for all that do H6213 (8802) so H428 [are] abomination H8441 unto the LORD H3068 thy God H430.
[6] If a bird’s H6833 nest H7064 chance H7122 (8735) to be before H6440 thee in the way H1870 in any tree H6086, or on the ground H776, [whether they be] young ones H667, or eggs H1000, and the dam H517 sitting H7257 (8802) upon the young H667, or upon the eggs H1000, thou shalt not take H3947 (8799) the dam H517 with the young H1121:
[7] [But] thou shalt in any wise H7971 (8763) let the dam H517 go H7971 (8762), and take H3947 (8799) the young H1121 to thee; that it may be well H3190 (8799) with thee, and [that] thou mayest prolong H748 (8689) [thy] days H3117.
[8] When thou buildest H1129 (8799) a new H2319 house H1004, then thou shalt make H6213 (8804) a battlement H4624 for thy roof H1406, that thou bring H7760 (8799) not blood H1818 upon thine house H1004, if any man H5307 (8802) fall H5307 (8799) from thence.
[9] Thou shalt not sow H2232 (8799) thy vineyard H3754 with divers seeds H3610: lest the fruit H4395 of thy seed H2233 which thou hast sown H2232 (8799), and the fruit H8393 of thy vineyard H3754, be defiled H6942 (8799).
[10] Thou shalt not plow H2790 (8799) with an ox H7794 and an ass H2543 together H3162.
[11] Thou shalt not wear H3847 (8799) a garment of divers sorts H8162, [as] of woollen H6785 and linen H6593 together H3162.
[12] Thou shalt make H6213 (8799) thee fringes H1434 upon the four H702 quarters H3671 of thy vesture H3682, wherewith thou coverest H3680 (8762) [thyself].
[13] If any man H376 take H3947 (8799) a wife H802, and go in H935 (8804) unto her, and hate H8130 (8804) her,
[14] And give H7760 (8804) occasions H5949 of speech H1697 against her, and bring up H3318 (8689) an evil H7451 name H8034 upon her, and say H559 (8804), I took H3947 (8804) this woman H802, and when I came H7126 (8799) to her, I found H4672 (8804) her not a maid H1331:
[15] Then shall the father H1 of the damsel H5291, and her mother H517, take H3947 (8804) and bring forth H3318 (8689) [the tokens of] the damsel’s H5291 virginity H1331 unto the elders H2205 of the city H5892 in the gate H8179:
[16] And the damsel’s H5291 father H1 shall say H559 (8804) unto the elders H2205, I gave H5414 (8804) my daughter H1323 unto this man H376 to wife H802, and he hateth H8130 (8799) her;
[17] And, lo, he hath given H7760 (8804) occasions H5949 of speech H1697 [against her], saying H559 (8800), I found H4672 (8804) not thy daughter H1323 a maid H1331; and yet these [are the tokens of] my daughter’s H1323 virginity H1331. And they shall spread H6566 (8804) the cloth H8071 before H6440 the elders H2205 of the city H5892.
[18] And the elders H2205 of that city H5892 shall take H3947 (8804) that man H376 and chastise H3256 (8765) him;
[19] And they shall amerce H6064 (8804) him in an hundred H3967 [shekels] of silver H3701, and give H5414 (8804) [them] unto the father H1 of the damsel H5291, because he hath brought up H3318 (8689) an evil H7451 name H8034 upon a virgin H1330 of Israel H3478: and she shall be his wife H802; he may H3201 (8799) not put her away H7971 (8763) all his days H3117.
[20] But if this thing H1697 be true H571, [and the tokens of] virginity H1331 be not found H4672 (8738) for the damsel H5291:
[21] Then they shall bring out H3318 (8689) the damsel H5291 to the door H6607 of her father’s H1 house H1004, and the men H582 of her city H5892 shall stone H5619 (8804) her with stones H68 that she die H4191 (8804): because she hath wrought H6213 (8804) folly H5039 in Israel H3478, to play the whore H2181 (8800) in her father’s H1 house H1004: so shalt thou put H1197 evil H7451 away H1197 (8765) from among H7130 you.
[22] If a man H376 be found H4672 (8735) lying H7901 (8802) with a woman H802 married H1166 (8803) to an husband H1167, then they shall both of them H8147 die H4191 (8804), [both] the man H376 that lay H7901 (8802) with the woman H802, and the woman H802: so shalt thou put away H1197 (8765) evil H7451 from Israel H3478.
[23] If a damsel H5291 [that is] a virgin H1330 be betrothed H781 (8794) unto an husband H376, and a man H376 find H4672 (8804) her in the city H5892, and lie H7901 (8804) with her;
[24] Then ye shall bring H3318 (8689) them both H8147 out unto the gate H8179 of that city H5892, and ye shall stone H5619 (8804) them with stones H68 that they die H4191 (8804); the damsel H5291, because H834 H1697 she cried H6817 (8804) not, [being] in the city H5892; and the man H376, because H834 H1697 he hath humbled H6031 (8765) his neighbour’s H7453 wife H802: so thou shalt put away H1197 (8765) evil H7451 from among H7130 you.
[25] But if a man H376 find H4672 (8799) a betrothed H781 (8794) damsel H5291 in the field H7704, and the man H376 force H2388 (8689) her, and lie H7901 (8804) with her: then the man H376 only that lay H7901 (8804) with her shall die H4191 (8804):
[26] But unto the damsel H5291 thou shalt do H6213 (8799) nothing H1697; [there is] in the damsel H5291 no sin H2399 [worthy] of death H4194: for as when a man H376 riseth H6965 (8799) against his neighbour H7453, and slayeth H7523 (8804) (8676) H5315 him, even so [is] this matter H1697:
[27] For he found H4672 (8804) her in the field H7704, [and] the betrothed H781 (8794) damsel H5291 cried H6817 (8804), and [there was] none to save H3467 (8688) her.
[28] If a man H376 find H4672 (8799) a damsel H5291 [that is] a virgin H1330, which is not betrothed H781 (8795), and lay hold H8610 (8804) on her, and lie H7901 (8804) with her, and they be found H4672 (8738);
[29] Then the man H376 that lay H7901 (8802) with her shall give H5414 (8804) unto the damsel’s H5291 father H1 fifty H2572 [shekels] of silver H3701, and she shall be his wife H802; because he hath humbled H6031 (8765) her, he may H3201 (8799) not put her away H7971 (8763) all his days H3117.
[30] A man H376 shall not take H3947 (8799) his father’s H1 wife H802, nor discover H1540 (8762) his father’s H1 skirt H3671.
Young’s Literal Translation
Deuteronomy 22 (YLT)
[1] ‘Thou dost not see the ox of thy brother or his sheep driven away, and hast hidden thyself from them, thou dost certainly turn them back to thy brother;
[2] and if thy brother is not near unto thee, and thou hast not known him, then thou hast removed it unto the midst of thy house, and it hath been with thee till thy brother seek it, and thou hast given it back to him;
[3] and so thou dost to his ass, and so thou dost to his garment, and so thou dost to any lost thing of thy brother’s, which is lost by him, and thou hast found it; thou art not able to hide thyself.
[4] ‘Thou dost not see the ass of thy brother, or his ox, falling in the way, and hast hid thyself from them; thou dost certainly raise them up with him.
[5] ‘The habiliments of a man are not on a woman, nor doth a man put on the garment of a woman, for the abomination of Jehovah thy God is any one doing these.
[6] ‘When a bird’s nest cometh before thee in the way, in any tree, or on the earth, brood or eggs, and the mother sitting on the brood or on the eggs, thou dost not take the mother with the young ones;
[7] thou dost certainly send away the mother, and the young ones dost take to thyself, so that it is well with thee, and thou hast prolonged days.
[8] ‘When thou buildest a new house, then thou hast made a parapet to thy roof, and thou dost not put blood on thy house when one falleth from it.
[9] ‘Thou dost not sow thy vineyard with divers things, lest the fulness of the seed which thou dost sow, and the increase of the vineyard, be separated.
[10] ‘Thou dost not plow with an ox and with an ass together.
[11] ‘Thou dost not put on a mixed cloth, wool and linen together.
[12] ‘Fringes thou dost make to thee on the four skirts of thy covering with which thou dost cover thyself.
[13] ‘When a man taketh a wife, and hath gone in unto her, and hated her,
[14] and laid against her actions of words, and brought out against her an evil name, and said, This woman I have taken, and I draw near unto her, and I have not found in her tokens of virginity:
[15] ‘Then hath the father of the damsel-and her mother-taken and brought out the tokens of virginity of the damsel unto the elders of the city in the gate,
[16] and the father of the damsel hath said unto the elders, My daughter I have given to this man for a wife, and he doth hate her;
[17] and lo, he hath laid actions of words, saying, I have not found to thy daughter tokens of virginity-and these are the tokens of the virginity of my daughter! and they have spread out the garment before the elders of the city.
[18] ‘And the elders of that city have taken the man, and chastise him,
[19] and fined him a hundred silverlings, and given to the father of the damsel, because he hath brought out an evil name on a virgin of Israel, and she is to him for a wife, he is not able to send her away all his days.
[20] ‘And if this thing hath been truth-tokens of virginity have not been found for the damsel-
[21] then they have brought out the damsel unto the opening of her father’s house, and stoned her have the men of her city with stones, and she hath died, for she hath done folly in Israel, to go a-whoring in her father’s house; and thou hast put away the evil thing out of thy midst.
[22] ‘When a man is found lying with a woman, married to a husband, then they have died even both of them, the man who is lying with the woman, also the woman; and thou hast put away the evil thing out of Israel.
[23] ‘When there is a damsel, a virgin, betrothed to a man, and a man hath found her in a city, and lain with her;
[24] then ye have brought them both out unto the gate of that city, and stoned them with stones, and they have died:-the damsel, because that she hath not cried, being in a city; and the man, because that he hath humbled his neighbour’s wife; and thou hast put away the evil thing out of thy midst.
[25] ‘And if in a field the man find the damsel who is betrothed, and the man hath laid hold on her, and lain with her, then hath the man who hath lain with her died alone;
[26] and to the damsel thou dost not do anything, the damsel hath no deadly sin; for as a man riseth against his neighbour and hath murdered him-the life, so is this thing;
[27] for in a field he found her, she hath cried-the damsel who is betrothed-and she hath no saviour.
[28] ‘When a man findeth a damsel, a virgin who is not betrothed, and hath caught her, and lain with her, and they have been found,
[29] then hath the man who is lying with her given to the father of the damsel fifty silverlings, and to him she is for a wife; because that he hath humbled her, he is not able to send her away all his days.
[30] ‘A man doth not take his father’s wife, nor uncover his father’s skirt.