1 Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them back unto thy brother. 2 And if thy brother be not near unto thee, and thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it unto thy house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore it unto him. 3 And so shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do with his clothing; and so shalt thou do with everything that is lost of thy brother, which he loseth, and thou findest: thou mayest not hide thyself. 4 Thou shalt not see thy brother's ass or his ox fall by the way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case [help] him to lift them up. 5 There shall not be a man's apparel on a woman, neither shall a man put on a woman's clothing; for whoever doeth so is an abomination to Jehovah thy God. 6 If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way, in any tree, or upon the ground, with young or with eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young: 7 thou shalt in any case let the dam go, and thou mayest take the young to thee, that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days. 8 When thou buildest a new house, thou shalt make a parapet for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thy house, if any one should in any wise fall from it. 9 Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with [seed of] two sorts, lest the whole of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the produce of thy vineyard, be forfeited. 10 Thou shalt not plough with an ox and an ass together. 11 Thou shalt not wear a garment of mixed material, [woven] of wool and linen together. 12 Tassels shalt thou make thee on the four corners of thy clothing, wherewith thou coverest thyself. 13 If a man take a wife, and go in unto her and hate her, 14 and charge her with things for scandalous talk, and cause an evil name against her to be spread abroad, and say, This woman have I taken, and I came in unto her, and I did not find her a virgin; 15 then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate; 16 and the damsel's father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man as wife, and he hates her; 17 and behold, he charges her with things for scandalous talk, saying, I found not thy daughter a virgin; and here are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city. 18 And the elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him; 19 and they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath caused an evil name to be spread abroad against a virgin in Israel. And she shall remain his wife: he may not put her away all his days. 20 But if this thing is true, [and] virginity hath not been found with the damsel; 21 then they shall bring out the damsel unto the entrance of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought infamy in Israel, committing fornication in her father's house; and thou shalt put evil away from thy midst. 22 If a man be found lying with a man's wife, they shall both of them die, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman; and thou shalt put away evil from Israel. 23 If a damsel, a virgin, be betrothed to some one, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her, 24 then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, [being] in the city, and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife; and thou shalt put evil away from thy midst. 25 But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her, then the man only that lay with her shall die; 26 and unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing: there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death; for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and murdereth him, so is this matter; 27 for he found her in the field, the betrothed damsel cried, and there was no one to save her. 28 If a man find a damsel, a virgin, who is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found, 29 then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty [shekels] of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he hath humbled her; he may not put her away all his days. 30 A man shall not take his father's wife, nor uncover his father's skirt.
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Cross references (25)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Exodus 23:4–5; Isaiah 58:7; Proverbs 24:11; Deuteronomy 22:3–4; Ezekiel 34:16
- 2 1 Thessalonians 4:6; Matthew 7:12
- 4 Romans 15:1; Luke 10:29–37; Exodus 23:4–5; 1 Thessalonians 5:14; 2 Corinthians 12:15
- 5 1 Corinthians 11:4–15; Deuteronomy 18:12
- 6 Leviticus 22:28; Proverbs 12:10; Genesis 8:17; Luke 12:6; Hosea 10:14
- 7 Deuteronomy 4:40; Proverbs 22:4
- 8 Mark 2:4; Jeremiah 19:13; 2 Samuel 11:2; Isaiah 22:1; Exodus 21:28–36
- 9 Leviticus 19:19; 2 Corinthians 11:3; Matthew 9:16; James 1:6–8; James 3:10
- 10 2 Corinthians 6:14–16
- 11 Leviticus 19:19
- 12 Matthew 23:5; Numbers 15:37–41
- 13 Genesis 29:21; Ephesians 5:28–29; Genesis 29:23; Genesis 29:31; Deuteronomy 24:1
- 14 Exodus 23:1; Exodus 20:16; Proverbs 18:8; 1 Timothy 5:14; Deuteronomy 22:19
- 18 Exodus 18:21
- 19 Deuteronomy 22:29; Matthew 19:8–9; Deuteronomy 24:1–4
- 21 Genesis 34:7; Deuteronomy 13:5; Judges 20:6; 2 Samuel 13:12–13; Judges 20:10
- 22 Leviticus 20:10; Ezekiel 23:45–47; Hebrews 13:4; John 8:4–5; Ezekiel 16:38
- 23 Matthew 1:18–19; Deuteronomy 20:7
- 24 Deuteronomy 22:21–22; 1 Corinthians 5:13; Deuteronomy 21:14; 1 Corinthians 5:2; Genesis 29:21
- 25 2 Samuel 13:14
- 26 Deuteronomy 21:22
- 27 1 Corinthians 13:7
- 28 Exodus 22:16–17
- 29 Deuteronomy 22:19; Deuteronomy 22:24; Deuteronomy 21:14
- 30 Deuteronomy 27:20; Leviticus 18:8; 1 Corinthians 5:1; Leviticus 20:11; Ezekiel 16:8
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Hear what precept Christ gave to the Jews, creeping as they did upon the earth: "If thou see," saith He, "thine enemy's beast of burden falling down, do not hasten by, but raise it." And thou must see that to separate and reconcile men that are fighting is a much lighter thing than to lift up the fallen beast.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
If, therefore, the Scripture elsewhere says, The betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her, doth it not speak of a virgin?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
… Old Testament respecting care for brutes, in its principal meaning bears on the instruction of human beings: as in fact do all the rest: the precepts, for example, concerning various garments; and those concerning vineyards and seeds and not making the ground bear divers crops, and those concerning leprosy; and, in a word, all the rest: for they being of …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 12 (1889)