1 "You shall not see your brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and withhold your help from them; you shall take them back to your brother.

 

2 And if he is not near you, or if you do not know him, you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall be with you until your brother seeks it; then you shall restore it to him.

 

3 And so you shall do with his ass; so you shall do with his garment; so you shall do with any lost thing of your brother's, which he loses and you find; you may not withhold your help.

 

4 You shall not see your brother's ass or his ox fallen down by the way, and withhold your help from them; you shall help him to lift them up again.

 

5 "A woman shall not wear anything that pertains to a man, nor shall a man put on a woman's garment; for whoever does these things is an abomination to YHVH, your god,

 

6 "If you chance to come upon a bird's nest, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs and the mother sitting upon the young or upon the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young;

 

7 you shall let the mother go, but the young you may take to yourself; that it may go well with you, and that you may live long.

 

8 "When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof, that you may not bring the guilt of blood upon your house, if any one fall from it.

 

9 "You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the whole yield be forfeited to the sanctuary, the crop which you have sown and the yield of the vineyard.

 

10 You shall not plow with an ox and an ass together.


11 You shall not wear a mingled stuff, wool and linen together.

All these rules, taken together, can be summed up as “be respectful to others”, and “keep your mind focused on only one goal at a time.”

 

12 "You shall make yourself tassels on the four corners of your cloak with which you cover yourself.

 

13 "If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, and then spurns her,

 

14 and charges her with shameful conduct, and brings an evil name upon her, saying, 'I took this woman, and when I came near her, I did not find in her the tokens of virginity,'

 

15 then the father of the young woman and her mother shall take and bring out the tokens of her virginity to the elders of the city in the gate;

 

16 and the father of the young woman shall say to the elders, 'I gave my daughter to this man to wife, and he spurns her;

 

17 and lo, he has made shameful charges against her, saying, "I did not find in your daughter the tokens of virginity." And yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity.' And they shall spread the garment before the elders of the city.

 

18 Then the elders of that city shall take the man and whip him;

 

19 and they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver, and give them to the father of the young woman, because he has brought 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 the thing is true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the young woman,

 

21 then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has wrought folly in Israel by playing the harlot in her father's house; so you shall purge the evil from the midst of you.


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