“You shall not see your brother's ox or his sheep going astray
and ignore them. You shall take them back to your brother. And if
he does not live near you and you do not know who he is, you shall
bring it home to your house, and it shall stay with you until your
brother seeks it. Then you shall restore it to him. And you shall
do the same with his donkey or with his garment, or with any lost
thing of your brother's, which he loses and you find; you may not
ignore it. You shall not see your brother's donkey or his ox fallen
down by the way and ignore them. You shall help him to lift them up
again.
“A woman shall not wear a man's garment, nor shall a man put on a
woman's cloak, for whoever does these things is an abomination to
the LORD your God.
“If you come across a bird's nest 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. You shall
let the mother go, but the young you may take for yourself, that it
may go well with you, and that you may live long.
“When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your
roof, that you may not bring the guilt of blood upon your house, if
anyone should fall from it.
“You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the
whole yield be forfeited, the crop that you have sown and the yield
of the vineyard. You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey
together. You shall not wear cloth of wool and linen mixed
together.
“You shall make yourself tassels on the four corners of the
garment with which you cover yourself.
“If any man takes a wife and goes in to her and then hates her
and accuses her of misconduct and brings a bad name upon her,
saying, ‘I took this woman, and when I came near her, I did not
find in her evidence of virginity,’ then the father of the young
woman and her mother shall take and bring out the evidence of her
virginity to the elders of the city in the gate. And the father of
the young woman shall say to the elders, ‘I gave my daughter to
this man to marry, and he hates her; and behold, he has accused her
of misconduct, saying, “I did not find in your daughter evidence of
virginity.” And yet this is the evidence of my daughter's
virginity.’ And they shall spread the cloak before the elders of
the city. Then the elders of that city shall take the man and whip
him, and they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give
them to the father of the young woman, because he has brought a bad
name upon a virgin of Israel. And she shall be his wife. He may not
divorce her all his days. But if the thing is true, that evidence
of virginity was not found in the young woman, 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 an outrageous thing in Israel by whoring in her
father's house. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.
“If a man is found lying with the wife of another man, both of
them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman. So
you shall purge the evil from Israel.
“If there is a betrothed virgin, and a man meets her in the city
and lies with her, 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 did not cry for help though she was in the
city, and the man because he violated his neighbor's wife. So you
shall purge the evil from your midst.
“But if in the open country a man meets a young woman who is
betrothed, and the man seizes her and lies with her, then only the
man who lay with her shall die. But you shall do nothing to the
young woman; she has committed no offense punishable by death. For
this case is like that of a man attacking and murdering his
neighbor, because he met her in the open country, and though the
betrothed young woman cried for help there was no one to rescue
her.
“If a man meets a virgin who is not betrothed, and seizes her and
lies with her, and they are found, then the man who lay with her
shall give to the father of the young woman fifty shekels of
silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has violated her. He
may not divorce her all his days.
“A man shall not take his father's wife, so that he does not
uncover his father's nakedness.
