New American Bible, Revised Edition

Deuteronomy 22:8-22 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

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.

18. Then these city elders shall take the man and discipline him,

19. and fine him one hundred silver shekels, which they shall give to the young woman’s father, because the man slandered a virgin in Israel. She shall remain his wife, and he may not divorce her as long as he lives.

20. But if this charge is true, and evidence of the young woman’s virginity is not found,

21. they shall bring the young woman to the entrance of her father’s house and there the men of her town shall stone her to death, because she committed a shameful crime in Israel by prostituting herself in her father’s house. Thus shall you purge the evil from your midst.

22. If a man is discovered lying with a woman who is married to another, they both shall die, the man who was lying with the woman as well as the woman. Thus shall you purge the evil from Israel.