Holy Bible: Easy-To-Read Version

Deuteronomy 22:5-13 Holy Bible: Easy-To-Read Version (ETR)

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.