Deuteronomy 22:2   (Read all of Deuteronomy 22)

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.

Deuteronomy 22:3   (Read all of Deuteronomy 22)

Do the same if you find their donkey or cloak or anything else they have lost. Do not ignore it.

Deuteronomy 22:4   (Read all of Deuteronomy 22)

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

Deuteronomy 22:5   (Read all of Deuteronomy 22)

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.

Deuteronomy 22:6   (Read all of Deuteronomy 22)

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.

Deuteronomy 22:7   (Read all of Deuteronomy 22)

You may take the young, but be sure to let the mother go, so that it may go well with you and you may have a long life.

Deuteronomy 22:8   (Read all of Deuteronomy 22)

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.

Deuteronomy 22:9   (Read all of Deuteronomy 22)

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

Deuteronomy 22:12   (Read all of Deuteronomy 22)

Make tassels on the four corners of the cloak you wear.

Deuteronomy 22:15   (Read all of Deuteronomy 22)

then the young woman's father and mother shall bring to the town elders at the gate proof that she was a virgin.

Deuteronomy 22:17   (Read all of Deuteronomy 22)

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,

Deuteronomy 22:19   (Read all of Deuteronomy 22)

They shall fine him a hundred shekels 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.

Deuteronomy 22:20   (Read all of Deuteronomy 22)

If, however, the charge is true and no proof of the young woman's virginity can be found,

Deuteronomy 22:21   (Read all of Deuteronomy 22)

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 in Israel by being promiscuous while still in her father's house. You must purge the evil from among you.

Deuteronomy 22:22   (Read all of Deuteronomy 22)

If a man is found sleeping with another man's wife, both the man who slept with her and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.

Deuteronomy 22:24   (Read all of Deuteronomy 22)

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.

Deuteronomy 22:25   (Read all of Deuteronomy 22)

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.

Deuteronomy 22:27   (Read all of Deuteronomy 22)

for the man found the young woman out in the country, and though the betrothed woman screamed, there was no one to rescue her.

Deuteronomy 22:29   (Read all of Deuteronomy 22)

he shall pay her father fifty shekels of silver. He must marry the young woman, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.

Deuteronomy 23:4   (Read all of Deuteronomy 23)

For they did not come to meet you with bread and water on your way when you came out of Egypt, and they hired Balaam son of Beor from Pethor in Aram Naharaim to pronounce a curse on you.

Deuteronomy 23:5   (Read all of Deuteronomy 23)

However, the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam but turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the Lord your God loves you.

Deuteronomy 23:6   (Read all of Deuteronomy 23)

Do not seek a treaty of friendship with them as long as you live.

Deuteronomy 23:7   (Read all of Deuteronomy 23)

Do not despise an Edomite, for the Edomites are related to you. Do not despise an Egyptian, because you resided as foreigners in their country.

Deuteronomy 23:9   (Read all of Deuteronomy 23)

When you are encamped against your enemies, keep away from everything impure.