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22 Þegar þú sér naut eða sauð bróður þíns á slæðingi, þá skalt þú ekki ganga fram hjá þeim, heldur skalt þú reka þau aftur til bróður þíns.

En ef bróðir þinn býr eigi í grennd við þig eða ef þú þekkir hann ekki, þá skalt þú taka það heim til þín og hafa hjá þér, uns bróðir þinn leitar þess. Þá skalt þú fá honum það aftur.

Eins skalt þú og fara með asna hans, og eins skalt þú fara með klæðnað hans, og eins skalt þú fara með hvern þann týndan hlut, er bróðir þinn hefir misst og þú fundið. Þú mátt eigi leiða það hjá þér.

Ef þú sér asna eða uxa bróður þíns liggja afvelta á veginum, þá skalt þú ekki ganga fram hjá þeim. Þú skalt vissulega hjálpa honum til að reisa þá á fætur.

Eigi skal kona ganga í karlmannsbúningi og eigi skal karlmaður fara í kvenmannsföt, því að hver sá, er slíkt gjörir, er Drottni Guði þínum andstyggilegur.

Ef fuglshreiður verður fyrir þér á leið þinni, uppi í tré eða á jörðinni, með ungum í eða eggjum, og móðirin liggur á ungunum eða eggjunum, þá skalt þú ekki taka móðurina ásamt ungunum.

Þú skalt sleppa móðurinni, en taka ungana eina, til þess að þér vegni vel og þú lifir langa ævi.

Þegar þú reisir nýtt hús, skalt þú gjöra brjóstrið allt í kring uppi á þakinu, svo að ekki bakir þú húsi þínu blóðsekt, ef einhver kynni að detta ofan af því.

Þú skalt eigi sá víngarð þinn tvenns konar sæði, svo að allt falli ekki undir helgidóminn, sæðið, sem þú sáir, og eftirtekjan af víngarðinum.

10 Þú skalt ekki plægja með uxa og asna saman.

11 Þú skalt ekki fara í föt, sem ofin eru af tvenns konar efni, af ull og hör saman.

12 Þú skalt gjöra þér skúfa á fjögur skaut skikkju þinnar, þeirrar er þú sveipar um þig.

13 Nú gengur maður að eiga konu, en fær óbeit á henni, er hann hefir samrekkt henni,

14 og ber á hana svívirðilegar sakir og ófrægir hana og segir: "Ég gekk að eiga þessa konu, en er ég kom nærri henni, fann ég ekki meydómsmerki hjá henni,"

15 þá skulu foreldrar stúlkunnar taka meydómsmerki hennar og fara með þau til öldunga borgarinnar í borgarhliðið,

16 og faðir stúlkunnar skal segja við öldungana: "Dóttur mína gaf ég þessum manni að eiginkonu, en hann hefir óbeit á henni.

17 Nú ber hann svívirðilegar sakir á hana og segir: ,Ég fann eigi meydómsmerki hjá dóttur þinni.` En hér eru sannanir fyrir meydómi dóttur minnar!" Og þau skulu breiða út rekkjuklæðið í augsýn öldunga borgarinnar.

18 Og öldungar borgarinnar skulu taka manninn og refsa honum,

19 og þeir skulu gjöra bætur á hendur honum, hundrað sikla silfurs, og greiða þá föður stúlkunnar, fyrir það að hann ófrægði mey í Ísrael. Og hún skal vera kona hans, honum skal eigi heimilt að skilja við hana alla ævi sína.

20 En ef það reynist satt, og sönnur verða eigi á það færðar að stúlkan hafi hrein mey verið,

21 þá skal fara með stúlkuna að húsdyrum föður hennar, og borgarmenn skulu lemja hana grjóti til bana, því að hún hefir framið óhæfuverk í Ísrael, með því að hórast í föðurgarði. Þannig skalt þú útrýma hinu illa burt frá þér.

22 Ef maður er staðinn að því að liggja hjá konu annars manns, þá skulu þau bæði deyja, maðurinn, sem lá hjá konunni, og konan sjálf. Þannig skalt þú útrýma hinu illa úr Ísrael.

23 Nú er mey manni föstnuð, og karlmaður hittir hana innan borgar og leggst með henni,

24 þá skuluð þér leiða þau bæði að borgarhliðinu og lemja þau grjóti til bana, stúlkuna vegna þess að hún kallaði ekki, þó að hún væri inni í borginni, og manninn vegna þess að hann spjallaði konu náunga síns. Þannig skalt þú útrýma hinu illa burt frá þér.

25 En ef maðurinn hittir föstnuðu stúlkuna úti á víðavangi, og hann tekur hana með valdi og leggst með henni, þá skal maðurinn einn deyja, sá er með henni lagðist.

26 En stúlkunni skalt þú ekkert gjöra. Hún hefir ekki framið neitt það, sem dauða sé vert, því að hér stóð eins á og þegar maður ræðst á náunga sinn og drepur hann.

27 Því að þar sem hann hitti hana úti á víðavangi, kann fastnaða stúlkan að hafa kallað, en enginn verið við til að hjálpa henni.

28 Ef maður hittir mey, sem eigi er föstnuð, og hann tekur hana og leggst með henni og komið er að þeim,

29 þá skal maðurinn, er lagðist með henni, greiða föður stúlkunnar fimmtíu sikla silfurs, en hún skal verða kona hans, fyrir því að hann hefir spjallað hana. Honum skal eigi heimilt að skilja við hana alla ævi sína.

30 Eigi skal maður ganga að eiga konu föður síns né fletta upp ábreiðu föður síns.

22 If you see your fellow Israelite’s ox or sheep straying, do not ignore it but be sure to take it back to its owner.(A) If they do not live near you or if you do not know who owns it, take it home with you and keep it until they come looking for it. Then give it back. Do the same if you find their donkey or cloak or anything else they have lost. Do not ignore it.

If you see your fellow Israelite’s donkey(B) or ox fallen on the road, do not ignore it. Help the owner get it to its feet.(C)

A woman must not wear men’s clothing, nor a man wear women’s clothing, for the Lord your God detests anyone who does this.

If you come across a bird’s nest beside the road, either in a tree or on the ground, and the mother is sitting on the young or on the eggs, do not take the mother with the young.(D) You may take the young, but be sure to let the mother go,(E) so that it may go well with you and you may have a long life.(F)

When you build a new house, make a parapet around your roof so that you may not bring the guilt of bloodshed on your house if someone falls from the roof.(G)

Do not plant two kinds of seed in your vineyard;(H) if you do, not only the crops you plant but also the fruit of the vineyard will be defiled.[a]

10 Do not plow with an ox and a donkey yoked together.(I)

11 Do not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together.(J)

12 Make tassels on the four corners of the cloak you wear.(K)

Marriage Violations

13 If a man takes a wife and, after sleeping with her(L), dislikes her 14 and slanders her and gives her a bad name, saying, “I married this woman, but when I approached her, I did not find proof of her virginity,” 15 then the young woman’s father and mother shall bring to the town elders at the gate(M) proof that she was a virgin. 16 Her father will say to the elders, “I gave my daughter in marriage to this man, but he dislikes her. 17 Now he has slandered her and said, ‘I did not find your daughter to be a virgin.’ But here is the proof of my daughter’s virginity.” Then her parents shall display the cloth before the elders of the town, 18 and the elders(N) shall take the man and punish him. 19 They shall fine him a hundred shekels[b] of silver and give them to the young woman’s father, because this man has given an Israelite virgin a bad name. She shall continue to be his wife; he must not divorce her as long as he lives.

20 If, however, the charge is true(O) and no proof of the young woman’s virginity can be found, 21 she shall be brought to the door of her father’s house and there the men of her town shall stone her to death. She has done an outrageous thing(P) in Israel by being promiscuous while still in her father’s house. You must purge the evil from among you.

22 If a man is found sleeping with another man’s wife, both the man who slept(Q) with her and the woman must die.(R) You must purge the evil from Israel.

23 If a man happens to meet in a town a virgin pledged to be married and he sleeps with her, 24 you shall take both of them to the gate of that town and stone them to death—the young woman because she was in a town and did not scream for help, and the man because he violated another man’s wife. You must purge the evil from among you.(S)

25 But if out in the country a man happens to meet a young woman pledged to be married and rapes her, only the man who has done this shall die. 26 Do nothing to the woman; she has committed no sin deserving death. This case is like that of someone who attacks and murders a neighbor, 27 for the man found the young woman out in the country, and though the betrothed woman screamed,(T) there was no one to rescue her.

28 If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered,(U) 29 he shall pay her father fifty shekels[c] of silver. He must marry the young woman, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.

30 A man is not to marry his father’s wife; he must not dishonor his father’s bed.[d](V)

Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 22:9 Or be forfeited to the sanctuary
  2. Deuteronomy 22:19 That is, about 2 1/2 pounds or about 1.2 kilograms
  3. Deuteronomy 22:29 That is, about 1 1/4 pounds or about 575 grams
  4. Deuteronomy 22:30 In Hebrew texts this verse (22:30) is numbered 23:1.

22 Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them again unto thy brother.

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

In like manner shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do with his raiment; and with all lost thing of thy brother's, which he hath lost, and thou hast found, shalt thou do likewise: thou mayest not hide thyself.

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

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.

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:

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.

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.

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.

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

11 Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together.

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

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

14 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:

15 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:

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

17 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.

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

19 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.

20 But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel:

21 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 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.

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

24 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.

25 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.

26 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:

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

28 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;

29 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.

30 A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt.