1Thou 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. 2And 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 . 3And 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. 4Thou 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 .
Laws Regarding Clothing and Gender Distinctions
5A 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 .
Laws Concerning Marriage and Sexual Morality
6If 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 : 7thou 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 . 8When 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. 9Thou 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 . 10Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together . 11Thou shalt not wear a mingled stuff, wool and linen together . 12Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four borders of thy vesture , wherewith thou coverest thyself. 13If any man take a wife, and go in unto her , and hate her , 14and 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 ; 15then 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 ; 16and the damsel ’s father shall say unto the elders , I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her ; 17and , 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 . 18And the elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him ; 19and 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 . 20But if this thing be true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the damsel ; 21then 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 .
Laws Regarding False Accusations and Justice
22If 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 . 23If there be a damsel that is a virgin betrothed unto a husband, and a man find her in the city , and lie with her ; 24then 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. 25But 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 : 26but 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 ; 27for he found her in the field , the betrothed damsel cried , and there was none to save her . 28If 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 ; 29then 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 . 30A man shall not take his father’s wife, and shall not uncover his father’s skirt.