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 is not 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 seeks it, and you shall restore it to him. 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.
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 that which pertains to a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment; 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 mother sitting on the young, or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young. 7 You shall surely let the mother 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 for your roof, 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 the whole 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 a fabric of wool and linen together.
12 You shall make tassels on the four corners of your cloak, with which you cover yourself.
13 If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, and hates her, 14 and accuses her of shameful things, and brings 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;” 15 then the father of the young woman and her mother shall take and bring out the tokens of the young woman’s virginity to the elders of the city in the gate. 16 The young woman’s father shall tell the elders, “I gave my daughter to this man to be 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 woman, because he has brought an evil name on 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 woman; 21 then they shall bring out the young woman 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 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 put away the evil from Israel.
23 If there is a young woman 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 young woman, 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 among you.
25 But if the man finds the young woman who is pledged to be married in the field, and the man forces her, and lies with her; then the man only who lay with her shall die; 26 but to the young woman you shall do nothing. There is in the young woman 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 young woman cried, and there was no one to save her.
28 If a man finds a young woman who is a virgin, who is not pledged to be married, and seizes her, and lies with her, and they are found; 29 then the man who lay with her shall give to the young woman’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.
30 A man shall not take his father’s wife, and shall not uncover his father’s skirt.
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