Deuteronomy 22

Laws on Clothing and Agriculture Deuteronomy 22:5–12

⁵Verse 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. ⁶Verse 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. ⁷Verse 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. ⁸Verse 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.

⁹Verse 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. ¹⁰Verse 10. You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together. ¹¹Verse 11. You shall not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together. ¹²Verse 12. You shall make yourselves fringes on the four corners of your cloak with which you cover yourself.

Marriage and Virginity Claims Deuteronomy 22:13–21

¹³Verse 13. If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, hates her, ¹⁴Verse 14. accuses her of shameful things, and 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”; ¹⁵Verse 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. ¹⁶Verse 16. The young lady’s father shall tell the elders, “I gave my daughter to this man as his wife, and he hates her. ¹⁷Verse 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.

¹⁸Verse 18. The elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him. ¹⁹Verse 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. ²⁰Verse 20. But if this thing is true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the young lady; ²¹Verse 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.

Adultery and Punishment Deuteronomy 22:22–27

²²Verse 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. ²³Verse 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; ²⁴Verse 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.

²⁵Verse 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; ²⁶Verse 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; ²⁷Verse 27. for he found her in the field, the pledged to be married lady cried, and there was no one to save her.

Regulations on Consent and Relationships Deuteronomy 22:28–30

²⁸Verse 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; ²⁹Verse 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. ³⁰Verse 30. A man shall not take his father’s wife, and shall not uncover his father’s skirt.