1: Thou shalt not see the brother's ox or his sheep
go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them again
unto thy brother.
2: And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if
thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it unto thine own house, and it shall
be with thee until thy brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore it to him
again.
3: In like manner shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt
thou do with his raiment; and with all lost thing of thy brother's, which he
hath lost, and thou hast found, shalt thou do likewise: thou mayest not hide
thyself.
4: Thou shalt not see thy brother's ass or his ox fall down
by the way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely help him to lift them
up again.
5: The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a
man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are
abomination unto the LORD thy God.
6: If a bird's nest chance to be
before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young
ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt
not take the dam with the young:
7: But thou shalt in any wise let
the dam go, and take the young to thee; that it may be well with thee, and that
thou mayest prolong thy days.
8: When thou buildest a new house, then
thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine
house, if any man fall from thence.
9: Thou shalt not sow thy
vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and
the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled.
10: Thou shalt not plow with
an ox and an ass together.
11: Thou shalt not wear a garment of
divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together.
12: Thou shalt make
thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest
thyself.
13: If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate
her,
14: And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an
evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found
her not a maid:
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:
16: And the damsel's father shall say
unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her;
17: And, lo, he hath given occasions of speech against her, saying, I
found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's
virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.
18: And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him;
19: And they shall amerce him in an 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.
20: But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity
be not found for the damsel:
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 folly in Israel, to play the whore
in her father's house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.
22: If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then
they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the
woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.
23: If a damsel that
is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and
lie with her;
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 evil from among you.
25:
But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her, and
lie with her: then the man only that lay with her shall die:
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:
27: For he found her in the field, and the betrothed
damsel cried, and there was none to save her.
28: If a man find a
damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie
with her, and they be found;
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.
30: A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's
skirt.