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Deuteronomy 22 King James Version (with Apocrypha)

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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 again unto thy brother. 2 And if thy brother [be] not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it unto thine own house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore it to him again. 3 In like manner shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do with his raiment; and with all lost thing of thy brother’s, which he hath lost, and thou hast found, shalt thou do likewise: thou mayest not hide thyself.

4 ¶ Thou shalt not see thy brother’s ass or his ox fall down by the way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely help him to lift [them] up again.

5 ¶ The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so [are] abomination unto the LORD thy God.

6 ¶ If a bird’s nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, [whether they be] young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young: 7 [But] thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and 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, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence.

9 ¶ Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled.

10 ¶ Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.

11 ¶ Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, [as] of woollen and linen together.

12 ¶ Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest [thyself].

13 ¶ If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her, 14 And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid: 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 to wife, and he hateth her; 17 And, lo, he hath given occasions of speech [against her], saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these [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 that man and chastise him; 19 And they shall amerce him in an hundred [shekels] of silver, and give [them] unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days. 20 But if this thing be true, [and the tokens of] virginity be not found for the damsel: 21 Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father’s house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.

22 ¶ If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, [both] the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.

23 ¶ If a damsel [that is] a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, 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 ye shall 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: so thou shalt put away evil from among you.

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 But 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 slayeth him, even so [is] this matter: 27 For he found her in the field, [and] the betrothed damsel cried, and [there was] none to save her.

28 ¶ If a man find a damsel [that is] a virgin, which 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 discover his father’s skirt.

Cross references (25)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Exodus 23:4–5; Isaiah 58:7; Proverbs 24:11; Deuteronomy 22:3–4; Ezekiel 34:16
  2. 2 1 Thessalonians 4:6; Matthew 7:12
  3. 4 Romans 15:1; Luke 10:29–37; Exodus 23:4–5; 1 Thessalonians 5:14; 2 Corinthians 12:15
  4. 5 1 Corinthians 11:4–15; Deuteronomy 18:12
  5. 6 Leviticus 22:28; Proverbs 12:10; Genesis 8:17; Luke 12:6; Hosea 10:14
  6. 7 Deuteronomy 4:40; Proverbs 22:4
  7. 8 Mark 2:4; Jeremiah 19:13; 2 Samuel 11:2; Isaiah 22:1; Exodus 21:28–36
  8. 9 Leviticus 19:19; 2 Corinthians 11:3; Matthew 9:16; James 1:6–8; James 3:10
  9. 10 2 Corinthians 6:14–16
  10. 11 Leviticus 19:19
  11. 12 Matthew 23:5; Numbers 15:37–41
  12. 13 Genesis 29:21; Ephesians 5:28–29; Genesis 29:23; Genesis 29:31; Deuteronomy 24:1
  13. 14 Exodus 23:1; Exodus 20:16; Proverbs 18:8; 1 Timothy 5:14; Deuteronomy 22:19
  14. 18 Exodus 18:21
  15. 19 Deuteronomy 22:29; Matthew 19:8–9; Deuteronomy 24:1–4
  16. 21 Genesis 34:7; Deuteronomy 13:5; Judges 20:6; 2 Samuel 13:12–13; Judges 20:10
  17. 22 Leviticus 20:10; Ezekiel 23:45–47; Hebrews 13:4; John 8:4–5; Ezekiel 16:38
  18. 23 Matthew 1:18–19; Deuteronomy 20:7
  19. 24 Deuteronomy 22:21–22; 1 Corinthians 5:13; Deuteronomy 21:14; 1 Corinthians 5:2; Genesis 29:21
  20. 25 2 Samuel 13:14
  21. 26 Deuteronomy 21:22
  22. 27 1 Corinthians 13:7
  23. 28 Exodus 22:16–17
  24. 29 Deuteronomy 22:19; Deuteronomy 22:24; Deuteronomy 21:14
  25. 30 Deuteronomy 27:20; Leviticus 18:8; 1 Corinthians 5:1; Leviticus 20:11; Ezekiel 16:8

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Quotes verse 22:4 John Chrysostom, Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew (Homily XV)

    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)

  2. Quotes verse 22:27 Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures (Lecture XII)

    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)

  3. Quotes verse 22:9 John Chrysostom, Homilies on First Corinthians (Homily XXI)

    … 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)