Holman Christian Standard Bible

Deuteronomy 22:8-19 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

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.