Deuteronomy 22:1-18

1“You are not to watch your brother’s ox or sheep going astray and ignore them —you must certainly bring them back to your brother.

2If your brother is not near you or if you do not know him, then you should bring it into your house and it will remain with you until your brother comes searching for it and you return it to him.

3You are to do the same with his donkey or his coat or anything lost by your brother, that may be lost by him and you find—you may not ignore them.

4You must not watch your brother’s donkey or ox fall down on the road and ignore it—you must certainly help him lift it up again.

5“A man’s apparel is not to be on a woman, nor is a man to wear woman’s clothing—for whoever does these things is detestable to Adonai your God.

6“If there happens to be a bird’s nest in front of you along the road, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs and the hen sitting on the young or on the eggs, you are not to take the hen with the young.

7You must certainly let the hen go, but the young you may take for yourself so that it may go well with you and you may prolong your days.

8“When you build a new house, you are to make a guardrail for your roof, so that you do not bring the guilt of blood on your house if anyone falls from it.

9“You are not to plant your vineyard with two kinds of seed, or else the whole harvest will be forfeited —both the seed you plant and the produce of the vineyard.

10You are not to plow with an ox and a donkey together.

11You are not to wear a woven mixture , wool and linen together.

12You are to make for yourself twisted threads on the four corners of your garment in which you cover yourself.

13“Suppose a man takes a wife and goes t0 her and then dislikes her,

14accuses her of shameful things and gives her a bad reputation by saying, ‘I took this woman, but when I came near her, I didn’t find her virginity.’

15Then the father of the young woman is to take her and her mother is to bring out the signs of the young woman’s virginity to the city elders at the gate.

16The young lady’s father is to tell the elders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man as a wife, but he hates her.

17Indeed, he has accused her of shameful things, saying, “I didn’t find your daughter’s virginity.” Yet these are the signs of my daughter’s virginity.’ They are to spread the wedding cloth before the elders of the city.

18The elders of that city are to take the man and punish him.