Various Laws

1You shall not see the ox of your brother or his sheep going astray, and hide yourself† from them; you shall surely turn them back to your brother. 2And if your brother is not near to you, or if you do not know him, you shall bring it to your own house, and it shall remain with you until your brother seeks it—and you shall restore it to him. 3And so shall you do with his donkey, and so shall you do with his garment, and so shall you do with any lost thing of your brother that is lost by him and you have found it. You must not hide yourself.

4You shall not see the donkey of your brother or his ox fall down along the road, and hide yourself from them; you shall surely raise them up with him.

5Anything that pertains to a man shall not be upon a woman, and a man shall not put on the garment of a woman; for an abomination to YHWH your God is anyone doing these things.

6If the nest of a bird is encountered to your face along the way in any tree or on the ground, with chicks or eggs, and with the mother sitting on the chicks or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the sons; 7you shall surely send away the mother, and the young take for yourself, that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days.

8When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof, that you may not bring blood on your house if anyone falls down from it.

9You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the yield of the seed that you have sown and the fruit of your vineyard be defiled.†

10You shall not plow with an ox and with a donkey together.

11You shall not wear mixed material, wool and linen mixed together.

12You shall make tassels for yourself on the four corners of the clothing with which you cover yourself.

Marriage Violations

13If any man takes a wife, and he goes in to her and detests her, 14and he charges her with shameful conduct and brings on her a bad name and says, “This woman I took, and I came to her, and I found her not a virgin,”

15the father and the young woman—and mother—shall take and bring out the tokens of virginity of the young woman to the elders of the city at the gate. 16And the father of the young woman shall say to the elders, “I gave my daughter to this man as a wife, and he detests her. 17And behold, he has charged her with shameful conduct, saying, ‘I did not find your daughter a virgin,’ and these are the tokens of the virginity of my daughter.” And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.

18And the elders of that city shall take the man, and they shall discipline him. 19And 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 on a virgin of Israel. And she shall be wife to him; he may not divorce her all his days.

20But if this thing is true and tokens of virginity are not found for the young woman, 21then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of the house of her father, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones to death, because she has done a disgraceful thing in Israel to play the prostitute in the house of her father. And you shall put away the evil from among you.†

22If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall die, even the two of them, the man that lay with the woman and the woman. And you shall put away the evil from Israel.

23If there is a young woman, a virgin, betrothed to a husband, and a man finds her in the city and lies with her, 24then you⁺ shall bring out the two of them to the gate of that city, and you⁺ shall stone them with stones to death—the young woman on account of the matter, because she did not cry out in the city, and the man upon this thing, because he humbled the wife of his neighbor. And you shall put away the evil from among you.

25But if in the countryside the man finds a young woman betrothed, and the man forces her and lies with her, only the man who lay with her shall die. 26And to the young woman you shall not do anything; in the young woman there is no sin of death. For as when a man rises against his neighbor and kills him, even so is this matter. 27For he found her in the countryside and cried out the young woman betrothed, and there was no one to save her.

28If a man finds a young woman, a virgin who is not betrothed, and he seizes her and lies with her and they are found out, 29then the man who lay with her shall give to the father of the young woman fifty shekels of silver,† and to him she shall be wife upon that he has humbled her. He shall not be permitted to divorce her all his days.

30A man shall not take the wife of his father, and he shall not uncover the skirt of his father.†