The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so [are] abomination unto the Lord thy God (22:5)

If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, [whether they be] young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young: (22:6)

[But] thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to thee; that it may be well with thee, and [that] thou mayest prolong [thy] days (22:7)

When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence (22:8)

Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled (22:9)

Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together (22:10)

Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, [as] of woollen and linen together (22:11)

Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest [thyself] (22:12)

If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her, (22:13)

And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid: (22:14)

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: (22:15)

And the damsel's father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her; (22:16)

And, lo, he hath given occasions of speech [against her], saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these [are the tokens of] my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city (22:17)

And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him; (22:18)

And they shall amerce him in an 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 (22:19)

But if this thing be true, [and the tokens of] virginity be not found for the damsel: (22:20)

Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you (22:21)

If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, [both] the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel (22:22)

If a damsel [that is] a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her; (22:23)

Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, [being] in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you (22:24)

But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her: then the man only that lay with her shall die: (22:25)

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 neighbour, and slayeth him, even so [is] this matter: (22:26)

For he found her in the field, [and] the betrothed damsel cried, and [there was] none to save her (22:27)

If a man find a damsel [that is] a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found; (22:28)

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 (22:29)

A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt (22:30)

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