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you see your brother’s ox or sheep straying, you are not to ignore it; you must bring them back to your brother. 2 If your brother does not live near you or if you do not know who he is, then you are to bring it home with you, and it will remain with you until your brother comes looking for it; then you can give it back to him. 3 You must do the same with his donkey, his cloak, or with anything else that your brother loses and you find. You must not disregard it.
4 “If you see your brother’s donkey or his ox fallen over on the road, you must not ignore it. You must help him lift it up.
5 “A woman must not wear men’s clothing, nor a man wear women’s clothing; for whoever does these things is detestable to the Lord your God.
6 “If you come across a bird’s nest along the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, with the mother sitting on the young or the eggs, you must not take the mother with the young. 7 You may take the young for yourself, but you must let the mother go, so that it may go well with you and that you may prolong your days.
8 “When you build a new house, you must make a parapet for your roof, so that you will not bring bloodguilt on your house if someone falls from it.
9 “You must not sow your vineyard with a second type of seed, or all the produce will have to be forfeited, both the crop you have sown and the yield of your vines.
10 “You must not plough with an ox and a donkey yolked together.
11 “You are not to wear cloth made of both wool and linen mixed together.
12 “You are to make tassels on the four corners of the garment with which you cover yourself.
13 “If a man takes a wife, but after lying with her detests her, 14 and accuses her of shameful conduct, and gives her a bad name, saying, ‘I married this girl, but when I approached her, I found that she was not a virgin’, 15 then the girl’s father and mother shall bring the evidence of the girl’s virginity to the elders of the city at the gate.
16 “The father of the girl will say to the elders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man as a wife, but he detests her. 17 Now he has accused her of shameful conduct, saying, “I found your daughter was not a virgin”, and yet this is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity’. Then her parents shall spread out the cloth before the elders of the city. 18 The elders of that city shall take the man and punish him. 19 They shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the girl’s father, because that man brought a bad name on an Israelite virgin. She shall continue to be his wife; he cannot divorce her as long as he lives.
20 “But if this charge is true and no evidence of the girl’s virginity is found, 21 then they shall bring the girl out to the entrance of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death. She has committed a disgraceful act in Israel by being promiscuous in her father’s house. You must purge the evil from among you.
22 “If a man is caught lying with another man’s wife, then both of them must die, the man who laid with the woman, and the woman. You must purge the evil from Israel.
23 “If there is a girl who is a virgin and engaged to be married, and a man finds her in the city and lies with her, 24 then you shall take both of them out to the gate of that city, and you are to stone them to death—the girl because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he has violated his neighbour’s wife. You must purge the evil from among you.
25 “But if a man happens to meet a girl who is engaged to be married in the open country, and the man seizes her and rapes her, then only the man who has raped her shall die. 26 You must not do anything to the girl; the girl has committed no offence deserving death. This case is just like one where a man rises up against his neighbour and murders him. 27 For he found her in the field, and although the engaged girl may have cried out, there was no one to rescue her.
28 “If a man meets a girl who is a virgin, who is not engaged, and he seizes her and lies with her, and they are found out, 29 then the man who lay with her shall pay fifty shekels of silver to the girl’s father and she shall become his wife, because he has violated her. He cannot divorce her as long as he lives.
30 “A man is not to marry his father’s wife; he must not dishonour his father’s bed.”