1. “If you see that your neighbor’s ox or sheep is loose, you must not ignore it. Be sure to take it back to its owner.
2. If the owner does not live near you or if you don’t know who it belongs to, take the ox or sheep to your house. Keep it there until the owner comes looking for it; then give it back.
3. You must do the same thing when you find anything that your neighbor might have lost. Don’t try selling it to your neighbor—you must give it back.
4. “If your neighbor’s donkey or ox has fallen down on the road, you must not ignore it. You must help your neighbor lift it up again.
5. “A woman must not wear men’s clothes, and a man must not wear women’s clothes. That is disgusting to the Lord your God.
6. “You might be walking along a path and find a bird’s nest in a tree or on the ground. If the mother bird is sitting with her baby birds or on the eggs, you must not take the mother bird with the babies.
7. You may take the babies for yourself, but you must let the mother go. If you obey these laws, things will go well for you, and you will live a long time.
8. “When you build a new house, you must build a wall around your roof. Then you will not be guilty for the death of a person who falls from the house.
9. “You must not plant seeds of grain in the same fields as your grapevines. Why? Because then they become useless—both the grapes and the grain produced by the seeds you planted.
10. “You must not plow with an ox and a donkey together.
11. “You must not wear clothes made by weaving together wool and linen.
12. “Tie several pieces of thread together. Then put these tassels on the four corners of the robes you wear.
13. “A man might marry a woman and have sexual relations with her. Then he might decide that he does not like her.
14. He might accuse her of doing wrong and say, ‘I married this woman, but when we had sexual relations, I found she was not a virgin.’ By saying this against her, people might think bad things about her.
15. If this happens, the girl’s father and mother must bring the proof that the girl was a virgin to the town elders at the meeting place of the town.
16. The girl’s father must say to the leaders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man to be his wife, but now he does not want her.