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Deuteronomy 22 Literal Standard Version

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1 “You do not see the ox of your brother or his sheep driven away, and have hidden yourself from them, you certainly turn them back to your brother; 2 and if your brother [is] not near to you, and you have not known him, then you have removed it to the midst of your house, and it has been with you until your brother seeks it, and you have given it back to him; 3 and so you do to his donkey, and so you do to his garment, and so you do to any lost thing of your brother’s, which is lost by him, and you have found it; you are not able to hide yourself. 4 You do not see the donkey of your brother, or his ox, falling in the way, and have hid yourself from them; you certainly raise [them] up for him. 5 Anything of a man is not on a woman, nor does a man put on the garment of a woman, for anyone doing these [is] an abomination [to] your God YHWH. 6 When a bird’s nest comes before you in the way, in any tree, or on the earth, [with] brood or eggs, and the mother is sitting on the brood or on the eggs, you do not take the mother with the young ones; 7 you certainly send the mother away, and take the young ones for yourself, so that it is well with you and you have prolonged days. 8 When you build a new house, then you have made a parapet for your roof, and you do not put blood on your house when one falls from it. 9 You do not sow your vineyard [with] two kinds [of seed], lest the fullness of the seed which you sow and the increase of the vineyard be separated. 10 You do not plow with an ox and with a donkey together. 11 You do not put on mixed material, wool and linens together. 12 You make fringes for yourself on the four skirts of your covering with which you cover [yourself]. 13 When a man takes a wife, and has gone in to her, and hated her, 14 and laid evil deeds of words against her, and brought out an evil name against her, and said, I have taken this woman, and I draw near to her, and I have not found proofs of virginity in her; 15 then the father of the girl, and her mother, have taken and brought out the girl’s proofs of virginity to [the] elderly of the city in the gate, 16 and the father of the girl has said to the elderly, I have given my daughter to this man for a wife, and he hates her; 17 and behold, he has laid evil deeds of words, saying, I have not found proofs of virginity for your daughter—and these [are] the proofs of virginity of my daughter! And they have spread out the garment before [the] elderly of the city. 18 And [the] elderly of that city have taken the man, and discipline him, 19 and fined him one hundred pieces of silver, and given [them] to the father of the girl, because he has brought out an evil name on a virgin of Israel; and she is to him for a wife—he is not able to send her away [for] all his days. 20 And if this thing has been truth—proofs of virginity have not been found for the girl— 21 then they have brought out the girl to the opening of her father’s house, and the men of her city have stoned her with stones and she has died, for she has done folly in Israel, to go whoring [in] her father’s house; and you have put away evil out of your midst. 22 When a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then both of them have died—the man who is lying with the woman, and the woman; and you have put away evil out of Israel. 23 When there is a girl, a virgin, betrothed to a man, and a man has found her in a city and lain with her, 24 then you have brought them both out to the gate of that city, and stoned them with stones, and they have died: the girl, because that she has not cried in a city; and the man, because that he has humbled his neighbor’s wife; and you have put away evil out of your midst. 25 And if the man finds the girl who is betrothed in a field, and the man has laid hold on her, and lain with her, then the man who has lain with her has died alone; 26 and you do not do anything to the girl—the girl has no deadly sin; for as a man rises against his neighbor and has murdered him, [taking] a life, so [is] this thing; 27 for he found her in a field, [and when] she has cried—the girl who is betrothed—then she has no savior. 28 When a man finds a girl, a virgin who is not betrothed, and has caught her, and lain with her, and they have been found, 29 then the man who is lying with her has given fifty pieces of silver to the father of the girl, and she is to him for a wife; because that he has humbled her, he is not able to send her away [for] all his days. 30 A man does not take his father’s wife, nor uncover 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

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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)