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.
17. This man accused my daughter of doing wrong and said, “I did not find the proof that your daughter is a virgin.” But here is the proof that my daughter was a virgin.’ Then they should show the cloth to the town leaders.
18. Then the leaders of that town must take that man and punish him.
19. They must fine him 40 ounces of silver. They will give the money to the girl’s father because her husband brought shame to an Israelite girl. And the girl will continue to be the man’s wife. He cannot divorce her for the rest of his life.
20. “But what the husband said about his wife might be true. The wife’s parents might not have the proof that she was a virgin. If this happens,
21. the town leaders must bring the girl to the door of her father’s house. Then the men of the town must kill her with stones, because she has done a shameful thing in Israel. She has acted like a prostitute in her father’s house. You must remove this evil from your group.
22. “If a man is found having sexual relations with another man’s wife, both of them must die—the woman and the man who had sexual relations with her. You must remove this evil from Israel.
23. “A man might meet a virgin girl engaged to another man. He might have sexual relations with her. If this happens in the city,
24. you must bring them both out to the public place near the gate of that city, and you must kill them with stones. You must kill the man, because he used another man’s wife for sexual sin. And you must kill the girl, because she was in the city but did not call for help. You must remove this evil from your people.
25. “But if a man finds an engaged girl out in the field and forces her to have sexual relations with him, only the man must die.