New King James Version

Deuteronomy 22:6-16 New King James Version (NKJV)

6. “If a bird’s nest happens to be before you along the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, with the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young;

7. you shall surely let the mother go, and take the young for yourself, that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days.

8. “When you build a new house, then you shall make a parapet for your roof, that you may not bring guilt of bloodshed on your household if anyone falls from it.

9. “You shall not sow your vineyard with different kinds of seed, lest the yield of the seed which you have sown and the fruit of your vineyard be defiled.

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

11. “You shall not wear a garment of different sorts, such as wool and linen mixed together.

12. “You shall make tassels on the four corners of the clothing with which you cover yourself.

13. “If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, and detests her,

14. and charges her with shameful conduct, and brings a bad name on her, and says, ‘I took this woman, and when I came to her I found she was not a virgin,’

15. then the father and mother of the young woman shall take and bring out the evidence of the young woman’s virginity to the elders of the city at the gate.

16. And the young woman’s father shall say to the elders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man as wife, and he detests her.