Deuteronomy 22 (NET)

Deuteronomy 22:1¹When you see your neighbor’s ox or sheep going astray, do not ignore it; you must return it without fail to your neighbor.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Deuteronomy 22:2²If the owner does not live near you or you do not know who the owner is, then you must corral the animal at your house and let it stay with you until the owner looks for it; then you must return it to him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Deuteronomy 22:3³You shall do the same to his donkey, his clothes, or anything else your neighbor has lost and you have found; you must not refuse to get involved.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Deuteronomy 22:4⁴When you see your neighbor’s donkey or ox fallen along the road, do not ignore it; instead, you must be sure to help him get the animal on its feet again.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Deuteronomy 22:5⁵A woman must not wear men’s clothing, nor should a man dress up in women’s clothing, for anyone who does this is offensive to the Lord your God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Deuteronomy 22:6⁶If you happen to notice a bird’s nest along the road, whether in a tree or on the ground, and there are chicks or eggs with the mother bird sitting on them, you must not take the mother from the young.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Deuteronomy 22:7⁷You must be sure to let the mother go, but you may take the young for yourself. Do this so that it may go well with you and you may have a long life.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Deuteronomy 22:8⁸If you build a new house, you must construct a guardrail around your roof to avoid being culpable in the event someone should fall from it.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Deuteronomy 22:9⁹You must not plant your vineyard with two kinds of seed; otherwise the entire yield, both of the seed you plant and the produce of the vineyard, will be defiled.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Deuteronomy 22:10¹⁰You must not plow with an ox and a donkey harnessed together.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Deuteronomy 22:11¹¹You must not wear clothing made with wool and linen meshed together.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Deuteronomy 22:12¹²You shall make yourselves tassels for the four corners of the clothing you wear.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Deuteronomy 22:13¹³Suppose a man marries a woman, sleeps with her, and then rejects her,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Deuteronomy 22:14¹⁴accusing her of impropriety and defaming her reputation by saying, “I married this woman but when I approached her for marital relations I discovered she was not a virgin!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Deuteronomy 22:15¹⁵Then the father and mother of the young woman must produce the evidence of virginity for the elders of the city at the gate.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Deuteronomy 22:16¹⁶The young woman’s father must say to the elders, “I gave my daughter to this man and he has rejected her.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Deuteronomy 22:17¹⁷Moreover, he has raised accusations of impropriety by saying, ‘I discovered your daughter was not a virgin,’ but this is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity!” The cloth must then be spread out before the city’s elders.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Deuteronomy 22:18¹⁸The elders of that city must then seize the man and punish him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Deuteronomy 22:19¹⁹They will fine him 100 shekels of silver and give them to the young woman’s father, for the man who made the accusation ruined the reputation of an Israelite virgin. She will then become his wife, and he may never divorce her as long as he lives.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Deuteronomy 22:20²⁰But if the accusation is true and the young woman was not a virgin,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Deuteronomy 22:21²¹the men of her city must bring the young woman to the door of her father’s house and stone her to death, for she has done a disgraceful thing in Israel by behaving like a prostitute while living in her father’s house. In this way you will purge the evil from among you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Deuteronomy 22:22²²If a man is discovered in bed with a married woman, both the man lying in bed with the woman and the woman herself must die; in this way you will purge the evil from Israel.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Deuteronomy 22:23²³If a virgin is engaged to a man and another man meets her in the city and goes to bed with her,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Deuteronomy 22:24²⁴you must bring the two of them to the gate of that city and stone them to death, the young woman because she did not cry out though in the city and the man because he violated his neighbor’s fiancée; in this way you will purge evil from among you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Deuteronomy 22:25²⁵But if the man came across the engaged woman in the field and overpowered her and raped her, then only the rapist must die.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Deuteronomy 22:26²⁶You must not do anything to the young woman—she has done nothing deserving of death. This case is the same as when someone attacks another person and murders him,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Deuteronomy 22:27²⁷for the man met her in the field and the engaged woman cried out, but there was no one to rescue her.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Deuteronomy 22:28²⁸Suppose a man comes across a virgin who is not engaged and takes hold of her and sleeps with her and they are discovered.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Deuteronomy 22:29²⁹The man who has slept with her must pay her father fifty shekels of silver and she must become his wife. Because he has humiliated her, he may never divorce her as long as he lives.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Deuteronomy 22:30³⁰(23:1) A man may not marry his father’s former wife and in this way dishonor his father.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s