May
3
Deuteronomy
21, 22
Deu
21:1 If one be found slain in the land which Yahweh your God gives
you to possess it, lying in the field, and it isn't known who has
struck him;
Deu
21:2 then your elders and your judges shall come forth, and they
shall measure to the cities which are around him who is slain:
Deu
21:3 and it shall be, that the city which is nearest to the slain
man, even the elders of that city shall take a heifer of the herd,
which hasn't been worked with, and which has not drawn in the yoke;
Deu
21:4 and the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer to a
valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and
shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley.
Deu
21:5 The priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them Yahweh
your God has chosen to minister to him, and to bless in the name of
Yahweh; and according to their word shall every controversy and every
stroke be.
Deu
21:6 All the elders of that city, who are nearest to the slain man,
shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the
valley;
Deu
21:7 and they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this
blood, neither have our eyes seen it.
Deu
21:8 Forgive, Yahweh, your people Israel, whom you have redeemed,
and don't allow innocent blood to remain
in the midst of your people Israel. The blood shall be forgiven them.
Deu
21:9 So you shall put away the innocent blood from the midst of you,
when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh.
Deu
21:10 When you go forth to battle against your enemies, and Yahweh
your God delivers them into your hands, and you carry them away
captive,
Deu
21:11 and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you have a
desire to her, and would take her to you as wife;
Deu
21:12 then you shall bring her home to your house; and she shall
shave her head, and pare her nails;
Deu
21:13 and she shall put the clothing of her captivity from off her,
and shall remain in your house, and bewail her father and her mother
a full month: and after that you shall go in to her, and be her
husband, and she shall be your wife.
Deu
21:14 It shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let
her go where she will; but you shall not sell her at all for money,
you shall not deal with her as a slave, because you have humbled her.
Deu
21:15 If a man have two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated,
and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and
if the firstborn son be hers who was hated;
Deu
21:16 then it shall be, in the day that he causes his sons to
inherit that which he has, that he may not make the son of the
beloved the firstborn before the son of the hated, who is the
firstborn:
Deu
21:17 but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the hated,
by giving him a double portion of all that he has; for he is the
beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.
Deu
21:18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey
the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they
chasten him, will not listen to them;
Deu
21:19 then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and
bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his
place;
Deu
21:20 and they shall tell the elders of his city, This our son is
stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton,
and a drunkard.
Deu
21:21 All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones:
so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you; and all Israel
shall hear, and fear.
Deu
21:22 If a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be put
to death, and you hang him on a tree;
Deu
21:23 his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall
surely bury him the same day; for he who is hanged is accursed of
God; that you don't defile your land which Yahweh your God gives you
for an inheritance.
Deu
22:1 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.
Deu
22:2 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 seek after it, and you shall restore it to him.
Deu
22:3 So you shall do with his donkey; and so you shall do with his
garment; and 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.
Deu
22:4 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.
Deu
22:5 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.
Deu
22:6 If a bird's nest chance to be before you in 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:
Deu
22:7 you shall surely let the hen go, but the young you may take to
yourself; that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your
days.
Deu
22:8 When you build a new house, then you shall make a battlement
for your roof, that you don't bring blood on your house, if any man
fall from there.
Deu
22:9 You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest
the whole fruit be forfeited, the seed which you have sown, and the
increase of the vineyard.
Deu
22:10 You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.
Deu
22:11 You shall not wear a mixed stuff, wool and linen together.
Deu
22:12 You shall make yourselves fringes on the four borders of your
cloak, with which you cover yourself.
Deu
22:13 If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, and hates her,
Deu
22:14 and accuses her of shameful things, and brings up an evil name
on her, and says, I took this woman, and when I came near to her, I
didn't find in her the tokens of virginity;
Deu
22:15 then shall the father of the young lady, and her mother, take
and bring forth the tokens of the young lady's virginity to the
elders of the city in the gate;
Deu
22:16 and the young lady's father shall tell the elders, I gave my
daughter to this man to wife, and he hates her;
Deu
22:17 and 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
garment before the elders of the city.
Deu
22:18 The elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him;
Deu
22:19 and they shall fine him one hundred shekels
of silver, and give them to the father of the young lady, because he
has brought up an evil name on a virgin of Israel: and she shall be
his wife; he may not put her away all his days.
Deu
22:20 But if this thing be true, that the tokens of virginity were
not found in the young lady;
Deu
22:21 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 put away the evil from the midst
of you.
Deu
22:22 If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband,
then they shall both of them die, the man who lay with the woman, and
the woman: so you shall put away the evil from Israel.
Deu
22:23 If there is a young lady who is a virgin pledged to be married
to a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;
Deu
22:24 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 put away the evil from the midst of
you.
Deu
22:25 But if the man find the lady who is pledged to be married in
the field, and the man force her, and lie with her; then the man only
who lay with her shall die:
Deu
22:26 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;
Deu
22:27 for he found her in the field, the pledged to be married lady
cried, and there was none to save her.
Deu
22:28 If a man find a lady who is a virgin, who is not pledged to be
married, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;
Deu
22:29 then the man who lay with her shall give to the lady's father
fifty shekels
of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has humbled her; he
may not put her away all his days.
Deu
22:30 A man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover
his father's skirt.
