Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Deuteronomy 22:6-24 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

6. If thou find as thou walkest by the way, a bird's nest in a tree, or on the ground, and the dam sitting upon the young or upon the eggs: thou shalt not take her with her young:

7. But shalt let her go, keeping the young which thou hast caught: that it may be well with thee, and thou mayst live a long time.

8. When thou buildest a new house, thou shalt make a battlement to the roof round about: lest blood be shed in thy house, and thou be guilty, if any one slip, and fall down headlong.

9. Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest both the seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of the vineyard, be sanctified together.

10. Thou shalt not plough with an ox and an ass together.

11. Thou shalt not wear a garment that is woven of woollen and linen together.

12. Thou shalt make strings in the hem at the four corners of thy cloak, wherewith thou shalt be covered.

13. If a man marry a wife, and afterwards hate her,

14. And seek occasions to put her away, laying to her charge a very ill name, and say: I took this woman to wife, and going in to her, I found her not a virgin:

15. Her father and mother shall take her, and shall bring with them the tokens of her virginity to the ancients of the city that are in the gate:

16. And the father shall say: I gave my daughter unto this man to wife: and because he hateth her,

17. He layeth to her charge a very ill name, so as to say: I found not thy daughter a virgin: and behold these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the ancients of the city:

18. And the ancients of that city shall take that man, and beat him,

19. Condemning him besides in a hundred sides of silver, which he shall give to the damsel's father, because he hath defamed by a very ill name a virgin of Israel: and he shall have her to wife, and may not put her away all the days of his life.

20. But if what he charged her with be true, and virginity be not found in the damsel:

21. They shall cast her out of the doors of her father's house, and the men of the city shall stone her to death, and she shall die: because she hath done a wicked thing in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: and thou shalt take away the evil out of the midst of thee.

22. If a man lie with another man's wife, they shall both die, that is to say, the adulterer and the adulteress: and thou shalt take away the evil out of Israel.

23. If a man have espoused a damsel that is a virgin, and some one find her in the city, and lie with her,

24. Thou shalt bring them both out to the gate of that city, and they shall be stoned: the damsel, because she cried not out, being in the city: the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife. And thou shalt take away the evil from the midst of thee.