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📚You shall not see your brother’s ox or his sheep go astray, and ignore them. You must certainly bring them back to your brother. 2 📚And if your brother is not near you, or if you do not know him, then you shall bring it to your own house, and it must remain with you until your brother looks for it, and you must give it back to him. 3 You must do the same way with his donkey, and do the same with his clothes, and do likewise with any lost thing of your brother which he has lost and you have found; you must not ignore it.
4 📚You shall not see your brother’s donkey or his ox fall down by the road, and ignore them; you must certainly help him to lift them back up.
5 📚A woman must not wear what pertains to a man, and a man must not put on a woman’s garment; for all who do so are an abomination to the LORD your God.
6 📚If a bird’s nest happens to be before you along the way in any tree or on the ground, if there are young ones or eggs, and the mother is sitting on the young or on the eggs, you must not take the mother with the young, 7 📚but you must certainly let the mother go, and take the young for yourself, so that it may be well with you, and that you may have a long life.
8 📚When you build a new house, then you must make a parapet for your roof, so that you do not bring the guilt of bloodshed on your house by someone falling from there.
9 📚You must not sow different kinds of seed in your vineyard, so that the crop from your seed which you have sown, and the fruit of your vineyard, is not defiled.
10 📚You must not plow with an ox and a donkey together.
11 📚You must not wear a garment of wool and linen mixed together.
12 📚You must make tassels for yourself on the four corners of your cloak, with which you cover yourself.
22:8-12 God was concerned with even the smallest details of their lives.⚜
Violations of the proper relationship between men and women
13 📚If any man marries a woman, and goes in to her, and hates her, 14 📚and then uses abusive language about her, and gives her a bad name, saying, “I married this woman, but when I went in to her I found out she was not a virgin”. 15 Then the father of the girl, and her mother, shall take the evidence of the girl’s virginity and bring them to the elders of the city in the gate; 16 and the girl’s father shall say to the elders, “I gave my daughter in marriage to this man, and he hates her, 17 and now has used abusive language about her, saying, ‘I did not find your daughter to be a virgin.’ But these are the evidences of my daughter’s virginity”. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city. 18 📚And the elders of that city must take that man and punish him, 19 📚and fine him a hundred shekels of silver 📖, and give them to the father of the girl, because he has given a bad name to a virgin of Israel. And she shall be his wife; he must not divorce her all his days.
20 But if this thing is true, and the evidences of virginity are not found for the girl, 21 📚then they shall bring the girl out to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones until she dies, because she has committed an evil deed in Israel, by acting like a prostitute in her father’s house. In this way you must purge evil from among you.
22 📚If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then both of them shall die, both the man who lay with the woman and the woman. In this way you shall purge evil from Israel.
23 📚If a girl who is a virgin is engaged to a man, and another man meets her in the city and lies with her, 24 📚then you shall bring both of them out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them with stones until they die; the girl, because she did not cry out in the city; and the man, because he has humbled his neighbour’s wife. In this way you shall purge evil from among you.
25 📚But if a man meets an engaged girl in the field, and the man forces her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die, 26 📚but you shall do nothing to the girl. There is no sin in the girl deserving death; for this matter is the same as when a man rises up against his neighbour and kills him. 27 📚For he met her in the field, and the engaged girl cried out, but there was no one to save her.
28 📚If a man meets a girl who is a virgin, who is not engaged, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are discovered, 29 📚then the man who lay with her must give the damsel’s father fifty shekels 📖 of silver, and she shall become his wife. Because he has humbled her, he must not divorce her all his days.
30 📚A man must not take his father’s wife, or uncover his father’s garment.