Dual Panel1SHOULD you see a fellow-countryman's ox or sheep straying, do not ignore it; you must take it back to him.
2If the owner is not a near neighbour and you do not know who he is, bring the animal to your own house and keep it with you until he claims it; then give it back to him.
3Do the same with his donkey or his cloak or anything else that your fellow-countryman loses. You may not ignore it.
4Should you see your fellow-countryman's donkey or ox lying on the road, do not ignore it; you must help him to raise it to its feet.
5No woman may wear an article of man's clothing, nor may a man put on woman's dress; for those who do these things are abominable to the LORD your God.
6When you come upon a bird's nest by the road, in a tree or on the ground, with fledgelings or eggs in it and the mother bird on the nest, do not take both mother and young.
7Let the mother bird go free, and take only the young; then you will prosper and enjoy long life.
8When you build a new house, put a parapet along the roof, or you will bring the guilt of bloodshed on your house if anyone should fall from it.
9You are not to sow two kinds of seed between your vine rows, or the full yield will be forfeit, both the yield of the seeds you sow and the fruit of the vineyard.
10You are not to plough with an ox and a donkey yoked together.
11You are not to wear clothes woven with two kinds of yarn, wool and flax together.
12Make twisted tassels on the four corners of the garment which you wrap round you.
13When a man takes a wife and, after intercourse, turns against her
14and brings trumped-up charges against her, giving her a bad name and saying, “I took this woman and slept with her and did not find proof of virginity in her,”
15then the girl's father and mother should take the proof of her virginity to the elders of the town at the town gate.
16The girl's father will say to the elders, “I gave my daughter in marriage to this man, and he has turned against her.
17He has trumped up a charge and said, ‘I have not found proofs of virginity in your daughter.’ Here are the proofs.” They must then spread the cloth before the elders of the town.
18The elders must take the man and punish him:
19they are to fine him a hundred pieces of silver because he has given a bad name to a virgin of Israel, and the money is to be handed over to the girl's father. She will remain his wife: he will not be free to divorce her all his days.
20If, on the other hand, the accusation turns out to be true, no proof of the girl's virginity being found,
21then they must bring her out to the door of her father's house and the men of her town will stone her to death. She has committed an outrage in Israel by playing the prostitute in her father's house: you must rid yourselves of this wickedness.
22When a man is discovered lying with a married woman, both are to be put to death, the woman as well as the man who lay with her: you must purge Israel of this wickedness.
23When a virgin is pledged in marriage to a man, and another man encounters her in the town and lies with her,
24bring both of them out to the gate of that town and stone them to death; the girl because, although she was in the town, she did not cry for help, and the man because he violated another man's wife: you must rid yourselves of this wickedness.
25But if it is out in the country that the man encounters and rapes such a girl, then the man alone is to be put to death because he lay with her.
26Do nothing to the girl; no guilt deserving of death attaches to her: this case is like that of a man who attacks another and murders him:
27the man came upon her in the country and, though the girl may have cried for help, there was no one to come to her rescue.
28When a man encounters a virgin who is not yet betrothed and forces her to lie with him, and they are discovered,
29then the man who lies with her must give the girl's father fifty pieces of silver, and she will be his wife because he has violated her. He is not free to divorce her all his days.
30A man must not take his father's wife: he must not bring shame on his father.