22:1 You must not observe your brother’s ox or sheep going astray and close your eyes¹ to them— you must without fail return them to your brother. 22:2 If your brother does not live² near you or you do not know him, then you must corral it at your house and let it stay with you until your brother looks for it; then you must return it to him. 22:3 You shall do the same to his donkey, his clothes, or anything else your brother has lost and you have found; you must not hide yourself. 22:4 Do not observe your brother’s donkey or ox fallen along the road and avoid them;³ indeed, you must help him get them up. 22:5 A woman must not wear men’s clothing,⁴ nor should a man dress up in women’s clothing, for all who do this are an offense⁵ to the LORD your God. 22:6 If a bird’s nest happen to come to your notice along the way, whether in a tree or on the ground, and there are chicks or eggs upon which⁶ the mother is sitting you must not take the mother from the young. 22:7 You must be sure to let the mother go but you may take the young for yourself. Do this so that it might go well with you and that you might have a long life. 22:8 If you build a new house, you must construct a guard rail on your roof to avoid bringing culpability to yourself⁷ in the event someone should fall from it.

22:9 You must not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed lest the whole thing, the seed you sow and the produce of the vineyard, be affected.⁸ 22:10 You must not plow with an ox and donkey together. 22:11 You must not wear clothing with large meshes,⁹ wool and linen together. 22:12 You shall make yourselves tassels¹⁰ for the four skirts of the clothing you wear.¹¹

22:13 If a man should marry¹² a wife, have sexual intercourse with her, and then reject¹³ her, 22:14 accusing her of impropriety¹⁴ and defaming her reputation¹⁵ by saying, “I married this woman but when I became intimate¹⁶ with her I discovered she was not a virgin,” 22:15 then the father and mother of the girl shall obtain and produce¹⁷ the signs of virginity¹⁸ for the elders of the city at the gate. 22:16 The girl’s father shall say to the elders, “I gave my daughter to this man and he has rejected¹⁹ her. 22:17 Moreover, he has raised accusations of impropriety by saying, I did not find your daughter to be a virgin, but these are the signs of my daughter’s virginity!” The covering will then be spread²⁰ before the city’s elders. 22:18 The elders of that city will then seize the man and punish²¹ him. 22:19 They will fine him one hundred shekels of silver and give them to the girl’s father for he ruined the reputation of an Israelite virgin. She will then become his wife and he may not divorce her²² as long as he lives. 22:20 But if it is true that the girl could produce no signs of virginity, 22:21 the men of her city shall bring the girl to the door of her father’s house and shall stone her to death, for she has done a foolish thing²³ in Israel by playing the harlot in her father’s house; thus you shall purge²⁴ evil from your midst. 22:22 If a man be caught²⁵ lying with a married woman²⁶ both must die, the man lying with the woman and the woman; thus you shall purge²⁷ evil from Israel. 22:23 If a virgin girl should be engaged to a man and another man find her in the city and lie with her, 22:24 you must bring the two of them to the gate of that city and stone them to death, the girl because she did not cry out though in the city and the man because he dishonored²⁸ his neighbor’s fiancée; thus you shall purge²⁹ evil from your midst. 22:25 But if the man found the engaged girl in the field and seized and raped³⁰ her, then only the man who did this³¹ must die. 22:26 You must not do anything to the girl—she has done nothing deserving of death; for just as someone³² rises up against another³³ and kills him, so is this case. 22:27 For he found her in the field, the engaged girl cried out, but there was no one to save her. 22:28 If a man comes across³⁴ a virgin girl who is not engaged and overpowers³⁵ and rapes her and they be discovered, 22:29 the man who has raped her must pay her³⁶ father fifty shekels of silver and she must become his wife because he has humiliated her; he may not divorce her as long as he lives. 22:30 A man may not marry³⁷ his father’s former³⁸ wife nor even look upon her nakedness.³⁹