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DEUTERONOMY
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Chapter 22
Deut JPS 22:1  Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep driven away, and hide thyself from them; thou shalt surely bring them back unto thy brother.
Deut JPS 22:2  And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, and thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it home to thy house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother require it, and thou shalt restore it to him.
Deut JPS 22:3  And so shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do with his garment; and so shalt thou do with every lost thing of thy brother's, which he hath lost, and thou hast found; thou mayest not hide thyself.
Deut JPS 22:4  Thou shalt not see thy brother's ass or his ox fallen down by the way, and hide thyself from them; thou shalt surely help him to lift them up again.
Deut JPS 22:5  A woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment; for whosoever doeth these things is an abomination unto HaShem thy G-d.
Deut JPS 22:6  If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young;
Deut JPS 22:7  thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, but the young thou mayest take unto thyself; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days.
Deut JPS 22:8  When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a parapet for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thy house, if any man fall from thence.
Deut JPS 22:9  Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with two kinds of seed; lest the fulness of the seed which thou hast sown be forfeited together with the increase of the vineyard.
Deut JPS 22:10  Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.
Deut JPS 22:11  Thou shalt not wear a mingled stuff, wool and linen together.
Deut JPS 22:12  Thou shalt make thee twisted cords upon the four corners of thy covering, wherewith thou coverest thyself.
Deut JPS 22:13  If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,
Deut JPS 22:14  and lay wanton charges against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say: 'I took this woman, and when I came nigh to her, I found not in her the tokens of virginity';
Deut JPS 22:15  then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate.
Deut JPS 22:16  And the damsel's father shall say unto the elders: 'I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her;
Deut JPS 22:17  and, lo, he hath laid wanton charges, saying: I found not in thy daughter the tokens of virginity; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity.' And they shall spread the garment before the elders of the city.
Deut JPS 22:18  And the elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him.
Deut JPS 22:19  And they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel; and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.
Deut JPS 22:20  But if this thing be true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the damsel;
Deut JPS 22:21  then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die; because she hath wrought a wanton deed in Israel, to play the harlot in her father's house; so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee.
Deut JPS 22:22  If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman; so shalt thou put away the evil from Israel.
Deut JPS 22:23  If there be a damsel that is a virgin betrothed unto a man, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;
Deut JPS 22:24  then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die: the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife; so thou shalt put away the evil from the midst of thee.
Deut JPS 22:25  But if the man find the damsel that is betrothed in the field, and the man take hold of her, and lie with her; then the man only that lay with her shall die.
Deut JPS 22:26  But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death; for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so is this matter.
Deut JPS 22:27  For he found her in the field; the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her.
Deut JPS 22:28  If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, that is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;
Deut JPS 22:29  then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he hath humbled her; he may not put her away all his days.