1 You shall not see your brother’s ox or his sheep go astray and hide yourself from them. You shall surely bring them again to your brother. 2 If your brother isn’t near to you, or if you don’t know him, then you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall be with you until your brother comes looking for it, and you shall restore it to him. 3 So you shall do with his donkey. So you shall do with his garment. So you shall do with every lost thing of your brother’s, which he has lost and you have found. You may not hide yourself. 4 You shall not see your brother’s donkey or his ox fallen down by the way, and hide yourself from them. You shall surely help him to lift them up again. 5 A woman shall not wear men’s clothing, neither shall a man put on women’s clothing; for whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh your God. 6 If you come across a bird’s nest on the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the hen sitting on the young, or on the eggs, you shall not take the hen with the young. 7 You shall surely let the hen go, but the young you may take for yourself, that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days. 8 When you build a new house, then you shall make a railing around your roof, so that you don’t bring blood on your house if anyone falls from there. 9 You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest all the fruit be defiled, the seed which you have sown, and the increase of the vineyard. 10 You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together. 11 You shall not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together. 12 You shall make yourselves fringes on the four corners of your cloak with which you cover yourself. 13 If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, hates her, 14 accuses her of shameful things, gives her a bad name, and says, “I took this woman, and when I came near to her, I didn’t find in her the tokens of virginity;” 15 then the young lady’s father and mother shall take and bring the tokens of the young lady’s virginity to the elders of the city in the gate. 16 The young lady’s father shall tell the elders, “I gave my daughter to this man as his wife, and he hates her. 17 Behold, he has accused her of shameful things, saying, ‘I didn’t find in your daughter the tokens of virginity;’ and yet these are the tokens of my daughter’s virginity.” They shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city. 18 The elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him. 19 They shall fine him one hundred shekels of silver, and give them to the father of the young lady, because he has given a bad name to a virgin of Israel. She shall be his wife. He may not put her away all his days. 20 But if this thing is true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the young lady, 21 then they shall bring out the young lady to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done folly in Israel, to play the prostitute in her father’s house. So you shall remove the evil from among you. 22 If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both die, the man who lay with the woman and the woman. So you shall remove the evil from Israel. 23 If there is a young lady who is a virgin pledged to be married to a husband, and a man finds her in the city, and lies with her, 24 then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones; the lady, because she didn’t cry, being in the city; and the man, because he has humbled his neighbor’s wife. So you shall remove the evil from among you. 25 But if the man finds the lady who is pledged to be married in the field, and the man forces her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die; 26 but to the lady you shall do nothing. There is in the lady no sin worthy of death; for as when a man rises against his neighbor and kills him, even so is this matter; 27 for he found her in the field, the pledged to be married lady cried, and there was no one to save her. 28 If a man finds a lady who is a virgin, who is not pledged to be married, grabs her and lies with her, and they are found, 29 then the man who lay with her shall give to the lady’s father fifty shekels of silver. She shall be his wife, because he has humbled her. He may not put her away all his days. 30 A man shall not take his father’s wife, and shall not uncover his father’s skirt.
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Cross references (25)
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- 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)