[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
seek after it, and you shall restore it to him. [3] So shall you do with
his donkey; and so shall you do with his garment; and so shall you 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 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: [7] 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. [8] 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 man fall from there. [9] 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. [10] You shall
not plow with an ox and a donkey together. [11] You shall not wear a
mingled stuff, wool and linen together. [12] You shall make you fringes on
the four borders of your cloak, with which you cover yourself. [13] If any
man take a wife, and go in to her, and hate her, [14] and lay shameful
things to her charge, and bring up an evil name on her, and say, I took
this woman, and when I came near to her, I didn`t find in her the tokens of
virginity; [15] then shall the father of the young lady, and her mother,
take and bring forth the tokens of the young lady`s virginity to the elders
of the city in the gate; [16] and the young lady`s father shall tell the
elders, I gave my daughter to this man to wife, and he hates her; [17] and,
behold, he has laid shameful things [to her charge], 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 garment before the elders of
the city. [18] The elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him;
[19] and they shall fine him one hundred [shekels] of silver, and give them
to the father of the young lady, because he has brought up an evil name on
a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all
his days. [20] But if this thing be 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 shall you put away the evil from the
midst of you. [22] If a man be found lying with a woman married to a
husband, then they shall both of them die, the man who lay with the woman,
and the woman: so shall you put away the evil from Israel. [23] If there be
a young lady who is a virgin pledged to be married to a husband, and a man
find her in the city, and lie 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 put away the evil
from the midst of you. [25] But if the man find the lady who is pledged to
be married in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her; then the
man only 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 none to save her. [28] If a man find a lady who is a virgin, who is not
pledged to be married, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be
found; [29] then the man who lay with her shall give to the lady`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.
