New American Bible, Revised Edition

Deuteronomy 22:2-17 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

2. If this neighbor does not live near you, or you do not know who the owner may be, take it to your own house and keep it with you until your neighbor claims it; then return it.

3. You shall do the same with a donkey; you shall do the same with a garment; and you shall do the same with anything else which your neighbor loses and you happen to find. You may not ignore them.

4. You shall not see your neighbor’s donkey or ox fallen on the road and ignore it; you must help in lifting it up.

5. A woman shall not wear a man’s garment, nor shall a man put on a woman’s clothing; for anyone who does such things is an abomination to the Lord, your God.

6. If, while walking along, you come across a bird’s nest with young birds or eggs in it, in any tree or on the ground, and the mother bird is sitting on them, you shall not take away the mother bird along with her brood.

7. You must let the mother go, taking only her brood, in order that you shall prosper and have a long life.

8. When you build a new house, put a parapet around the roof, so that you do not bring bloodguilt upon your house if someone falls off.

9. You shall not sow your vineyard with two different kinds of seed, or else its produce shall become forfeit, both the crop you have sown and the yield of the vineyard.

10. You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey harnessed together.

11. You shall not wear cloth made from wool and linen woven together.

12. You shall put tassels on the four corners of the cloak that you wrap around yourself.

13. If a man, after marrying a woman and having relations with her, comes to dislike her,

14. and accuses her of misconduct and slanders her by saying, “I married this woman, but when I approached her I did not find evidence of her virginity,”

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

16. There the father of the young woman shall say to the elders, “I gave my daughter to this man in marriage, but he has come to dislike her,

17. and now accuses her of misconduct, saying: ‘I did not find evidence of your daughter’s virginity.’ But here is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity!” And they shall spread out the cloth before the elders of the city.