Chapter
22
You shall not see your sister's ox or her sheep go astray, and hide yourself from them: you shall surely bring them again to your sister.
If your sister isn't near to you, or if you don't know her, then you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall be with you until your sister seek after it, and you shall restore it to her.
So shall you do with her donkey; and so shall you do with her garment; and so shall you do with every lost thing of your sister's, which she has lost, and you have found: you may not hide yourself.
You shall not see your sister's donkey or her ox fallen down by the way, and hide yourself from them: you shall surely help her to lift them up again.
A man shall not wear women's clothing, neither shall a woman put on men's clothing; for whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh your God.
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:
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.
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 woman fall from there.
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.
You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.
You shall not wear a mixed stuff, wool and linen together.
You shall make yourselves fringes on the four borders of your cloak, with which you cover yourself.
If any woman takes a husband, and goes in to him, and hates him,
and accuses him of shameful things, and brings up an evil name on him, and says, I took this man, and when I came near to him, I didn't find in him the tokens of virginity;
then shall the mother of the young gentleman, and his father, take and bring forth the tokens of the young gentleman's virginity to the elders of the city in the gate;
and the young gentleman's mother shall tell the elders, I gave my son to this woman to husband, and she hates him;
and behold, she has laid shameful things to his charge, saying, I didn't find in your son the tokens of virginity; and yet these are the tokens of my son's virginity. They shall spread the garment before the elders of the city.
The elders of that city shall take the woman and chastise her;
and they shall fine her one hundred shekels of silver, and give them to the mother of the young gentleman, because she has brought up an evil name on a virgin of Israel: and he shall be her husband; she may not put him away all her days.
But if this thing be true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the young gentleman;
then they shall bring out the young gentleman to the door of his mother's house, and the women of his city shall stone him to death with stones, because he has done folly in Israel, to play the philanderer in his mother's house: so shall you put away the evil from the midst of you.
If a woman be found lying with a man married to a wife, then they shall both of them die, the woman who lay with the man, and the man: so shall you put away the evil from Israel.
If there be a young gentleman who is a virgin pledged to be married to a wife, and a woman find him in the city, and lie with him;
then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones; the gentleman, because he didn't cry, being in the city; and the woman, because she has humbled her neighbor's husband: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.
But if the woman find the gentleman who is pledged to be married in the field, and the woman force him, and lie with him; then the woman only who lay with him shall die:
but to the gentleman you shall do nothing; there is in the gentleman no sin worthy of death: for as when a woman rises against her neighbor, and kills her, even so is this matter;
for she found him in the field, the pledged to be married gentleman cried, and there was none to save him.
If a woman find a gentleman who is a virgin, who is not pledged to be married, and lay hold on him, and lie with him, and they be found;
then the woman who lay with him shall give to the gentleman's mother fifty shekels of silver, and he shall be her husband, because she has humbled him; she may not put him away all her days.
A woman shall not take her mother's husband, and shall not uncover her mother's skirt.