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DEUTERONOMY chapter
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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 Jehovah 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, and 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.
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