The Scriptures 1998

Deuteronomy 22:9-20 The Scriptures 1998 (ISR98)

9. “Do 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. “Do not plough with an ox and a donkey together.

11. “Do not put on a garment of different kinds, of wool and linen together.

12. “Make tassels on the four corners of the garment with which you cover yourself.

13. “When any man takes a wife, and shall go in to her, and shall hate her,

14. and shall make abusive charges against her and bring an evil name on her and say, ‘I took this woman, and when I came to her I did not find her a maiden,’

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

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

17. ‘And see, he has made abusive charges against her, saying, “I did not find your daughter a maiden,” and yet these are the proofs of my daughter’s maidenhood.’ And they shall spread the garment before the elders of the city.

18. “And the elders of that city shall take that man and punish him,

19. and fine him one hundred pieces of silver and give them to the father of the young woman, because he has brought an evil name on a maiden of Yisra’ĕl. And she is to be his wife, he is not allowed to put her away all his days.

20. “But if the matter is true, that the girl was not found a maiden,