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Deuteronomy 22

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Deuteronomy 22 Bible text

WEB: 1WEB

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.

ASV: 1ASV

Thou shalt not see thy brother’s ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely bring them again unto thy brother.

WEB: 2WEB

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.

ASV: 2ASV

And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it home to thy house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore it to him.

WEB: 3WEB

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.

ASV: 3ASV

And so shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do with his garment; and so shalt thou do with every lost thing of thy brother’s, which he hath lost, and thou hast found: thou mayest not hide thyself.

WEB: 4WEB

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.

ASV: 4ASV

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

WEB: 5WEB

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.

ASV: 5ASV

A woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment; for whosoever doeth these things is an abomination unto Jehovah thy God.

WEB: 6WEB

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.

ASV: 6ASV

If a bird’s nest chance to be before thee in the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young:

WEB: 7WEB

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.

ASV: 7ASV

thou shalt surely let the dam go, but the young thou mayest take unto thyself; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days.

WEB: 8WEB

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.

ASV: 8ASV

When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thy house, if any man fall from thence.

WEB: 9WEB

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.

ASV: 9ASV

Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the whole fruit be forfeited, the seed which thou hast sown, and the increase of the vineyard.

WEB: 10WEB

You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.

ASV: 10ASV

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

WEB: 11WEB

You shall not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together.

ASV: 11ASV

Thou shalt not wear a mingled stuff, wool and linen together.

WEB: 12WEB

You shall make yourselves fringes .

ASV: 12ASV

Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four borders of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself.

WEB: 13WEB

If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, hates her,

ASV: 13ASV

If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,

WEB: 14WEB

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;”

ASV: 14ASV

and lay shameful things to her charge, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came nigh to her, I found not in her the tokens of virginity;

WEB: 15WEB

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.

ASV: 15ASV

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;

WEB: 16WEB

The young lady’s father shall tell the elders, “I gave my daughter to this man as his wife, and he hates her.

ASV: 16ASV

and the damsel’s father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her;

WEB: 17WEB

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.

ASV: 17ASV

and, lo, he hath laid shameful things to her charge, saying, I found not in thy daughter the tokens of virginity; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter’s virginity. And they shall spread the garment before the elders of the city.

WEB: 18WEB

The elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him.

ASV: 18ASV

And the elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him;

WEB: 19WEB

They shall fine him one hundred shekels of silver, or about

ASV: 19ASV

and they shall fine him a 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.

WEB: 20WEB

But if this thing is true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the young lady,

ASV: 20ASV

But if this thing be true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the damsel;

WEB: 21WEB

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.

ASV: 21ASV

then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the harlot in her father’s house: so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee.

WEB: 22WEB

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.

ASV: 22ASV

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

WEB: 23WEB

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,

ASV: 23ASV

If there be a damsel that is a virgin betrothed unto a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;

WEB: 24WEB

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.

ASV: 24ASV

then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them to death with stones; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbor’s wife: so thou shalt put away the evil from the midst of thee.

WEB: 25WEB

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;

ASV: 25ASV

But if the man find the damsel that is betrothed in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her; then the man only that lay with her shall die:

WEB: 26WEB

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;

ASV: 26ASV

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 neighbor, and slayeth him, even so is this matter;

WEB: 27WEB

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

ASV: 27ASV

for he found her in the field, the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her.

WEB: 28WEB

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,

ASV: 28ASV

If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, that is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;

WEB: 29WEB

then the man who lay with her shall give to the lady’s father fifty shekels or about

ASV: 29ASV

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.

WEB: 30WEB

A man shall not take his father’s wife, and shall not uncover his father’s skirt.

ASV: 30ASV

A man shall not take his father’s wife, and shall not uncover his father’s skirt.