Holman Christian Standard Bible

Deuteronomy 22:1-19 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

1. “If you see your brother’s ox or sheep straying, you must not ignore it; make sure you return it to your brother.

2. If your brother does not live near you or you don’t know him, you are to bring the animal to your home to remain with you until your brother comes looking for it; then you can return it to him.

3. Do the same for his donkey, his garment, or anything your brother has lost and you have found. You must not ignore it.

4. If you see your brother’s donkey or ox fallen down on the road, you must not ignore it; you must help him lift it up.

5. “A woman is not to wear male clothing, and a man is not to put on a woman’s garment, for everyone who does these things is detestable to the Lord your God.

6. “If you come across a bird’s nest with chicks or eggs, either in a tree or on the ground along the road, and the mother is sitting on the chicks or eggs, you must not take the mother along with the young.

7. You may take the young for yourself, but be sure to let the mother go free, so that you may prosper and live long.

8. If you build a new house, make a railing around your roof, so that you don’t bring bloodguilt on your house if someone falls from it.

9. Do not plant your vineyard with two types of seed; otherwise, the entire harvest, both the crop you plant and the produce of the vineyard, will be defiled.

10. Do not plow with an ox and a donkey together.

11. Do not wear clothes made of both wool and linen.

12. Make tassels on the four corners of the outer garment you wear.

13. “If a man marries a woman, has sexual relations with her, and comes to hate her,

14. and accuses her of shameful conduct, and gives her a bad name, saying, ‘I married this woman and was intimate with her, but I didn’t find any evidence of her virginity,’

15. the young woman’s father and mother will take the evidence of her virginity and bring it to the city elders at the gate.

16. The young woman’s father will say to the elders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man as a wife, but he hates her.

17. He has accused her of shameful conduct, saying: “I didn’t find any evidence of your daughter’s virginity,” but here is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity.’ They will spread out the cloth before the city elders.

18. Then the elders of that city will take the man and punish him.

19. They will also fine him 100 silver shekels and give them to the young woman’s father, because that man gave an Israelite virgin a bad name. She will remain his wife; he cannot divorce her as long as he lives.