Contemporary English Version Anglicised

Deuteronomy 22:8-16 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

8. If you build a house, make sure to put a low wall around the edge of the flat roof. Then if someone falls off the roof and is killed, it won't be your fault.

9. If you plant a vineyard, don't plant any other fruit tree or crop in it. If you do plant something else there, you must bring to the place of worship everything you harvest from the vineyard.

10. Don't hitch an ox and a donkey to your plough at the same time.

11. When you weave cloth for clothing, you can use thread made of flax or wool, but not both together.

12. And when you make a coat, sew a tassel on each of the four corners.

13. Suppose a man starts hating his wife soon after they are married.

14. He might tell ugly lies about her, and say, “I married this woman, but when we slept together, I found out she wasn't a virgin.”

15. If this happens, the bride's father and mother must go to the town gate to show the town leaders the proof that the woman was a virgin.

16. Her father will say, “I let my daughter marry this man, but he started hating her