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Deuteronomy 22
1You 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.
2If 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.
3So 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.
4You 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.
5A 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.
6If 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:
7you 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.
8When 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.
9You 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.
10You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.
11You shall not wear a mixed stuff, wool and linen together.
12You shall make yourselves fringes on the four borders of your cloak, with which you cover yourself.
13If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, and hates her,
14and 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;"
15then 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;
16and the young lady's father shall tell the elders, "I gave my daughter to this man to wife, and he hates her;
17and 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 cloth before the elders of the city.
18The elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him;
19and 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.
20But if this thing be true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the young lady;
21then 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.
22If 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.
23If 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;
24then 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.
25But 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:
26but 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;
27for he found her in the field, the pledged to be married lady cried, and there was none to save her.
28If 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;
29then 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.
30A man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover his father's skirt.
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Abomination: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Deuteronomy 22:5
A woman must not wear men’s clothing, and a man must not wear women’s clothing, for whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD your God.
Adornment Deuteronomy 22:5
A woman must not wear men’s clothing, and a man must not wear women’s clothing, for whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD your God.
Adulterers Deuteronomy 22:21
she shall be brought to the door of her father’s house, and there the men of her city will stone her to death. For she has committed an outrage in Israel by being promiscuous in her father’s house. So you must purge the evil from among you.
Adultery: Penalties For Deuteronomy 22:13–29
Suppose a man marries a woman, has relations with her, and comes to hate her, / and he then accuses her of shameful conduct and gives her a bad name, saying, “I married this woman and had relations with her, but I discovered she was not a virgin.” / Then the young woman’s father and mother shall bring the proof of her virginity to the city elders at the gate
Agriculture or Farming: Beasts Used in The Donkey Deuteronomy 22:10
Do not plow with an ox and a donkey yoked together.
Agriculture: Laws Concerning Deuteronomy 22:9, 10
Do not plant your vineyard with two types of seed; if you do, the entire harvest will be defiled—both the crop you plant and the fruit of your vineyard. / Do not plow with an ox and a donkey yoked together.
Animals: Laws Concerning Deuteronomy 22:4, 6, 7, 10
If you see your brother’s donkey or ox fallen on the road, you must not ignore it; you must help him lift it up. / If you come across a bird’s nest with chicks or eggs, either in a tree or on the ground along the road, and the mother is sitting on the chicks or eggs, you must not take the mother along with the young. / You may take the young, but be sure to let the mother go, so that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days.
Battlements: On the Roofs of Houses Deuteronomy 22:8
If you build a new house, you are to construct a railing around your roof, so that you do not bring bloodguilt on your house if someone falls from it.
Being Modest Deuteronomy 22:5
A woman must not wear men’s clothing, and a man must not wear women’s clothing, for whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD your God.
Being Unequally Yoked Deuteronomy 22:10
Do not plow with an ox and a donkey yoked together.
Birds: Make Their Nests: On the Ground Deuteronomy 22:6
If you come across a bird’s nest with chicks or eggs, either in a tree or on the ground along the road, and the mother is sitting on the chicks or eggs, you must not take the mother along with the young.
Birds: Moses' Law Protected the Mother from Being Taken with the Young Deuteronomy 22:6, 7
If you come across a bird’s nest with chicks or eggs, either in a tree or on the ground along the road, and the mother is sitting on the chicks or eggs, you must not take the mother along with the young. / You may take the young, but be sure to let the mother go, so that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days.
Birds: Not to be Eaten with Their Young Deuteronomy 22:6, 7
If you come across a bird’s nest with chicks or eggs, either in a tree or on the ground along the road, and the mother is sitting on the chicks or eggs, you must not take the mother along with the young. / You may take the young, but be sure to let the mother go, so that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days.
Birds: Propagated by Eggs Deuteronomy 22:6
If you come across a bird’s nest with chicks or eggs, either in a tree or on the ground along the road, and the mother is sitting on the chicks or eggs, you must not take the mother along with the young.
Braided Hair Deuteronomy 22:5
A woman must not wear men’s clothing, and a man must not wear women’s clothing, for whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD your God.
Bullock: Laws Concerning: Not to be Yoked with a Donkey Deuteronomy 22:10
Do not plow with an ox and a donkey yoked together.
Character: Defamation of, Punished Deuteronomy 22:13–19
Suppose a man marries a woman, has relations with her, and comes to hate her, / and he then accuses her of shameful conduct and gives her a bad name, saying, “I married this woman and had relations with her, but I discovered she was not a virgin.” / Then the young woman’s father and mother shall bring the proof of her virginity to the city elders at the gate
Christian Women Deuteronomy 22:5
A woman must not wear men’s clothing, and a man must not wear women’s clothing, for whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD your God.
Church: Rules of Discipline In, Mosaic and Christian Deuteronomy 22:13–29
Suppose a man marries a woman, has relations with her, and comes to hate her, / and he then accuses her of shameful conduct and gives her a bad name, saying, “I married this woman and had relations with her, but I discovered she was not a virgin.” / Then the young woman’s father and mother shall bring the proof of her virginity to the city elders at the gate
Clothes Deuteronomy 22:5
A woman must not wear men’s clothing, and a man must not wear women’s clothing, for whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD your God.
Clothing Deuteronomy 22:5
A woman must not wear men’s clothing, and a man must not wear women’s clothing, for whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD your God.
Court: Civil: The Gates of Cities Deuteronomy 22:15
Then the young woman’s father and mother shall bring the proof of her virginity to the city elders at the gate
Covering of Heads Deuteronomy 22:5
A woman must not wear men’s clothing, and a man must not wear women’s clothing, for whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD your God.
Damages and Compensation: General Scriptures Concerning Deuteronomy 22:13–19, 28, 29
Suppose a man marries a woman, has relations with her, and comes to hate her, / and he then accuses her of shameful conduct and gives her a bad name, saying, “I married this woman and had relations with her, but I discovered she was not a virgin.” / Then the young woman’s father and mother shall bring the proof of her virginity to the city elders at the gate
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Deuteronomy 22:1-4 Verses 1-4
If we duly regard the golden rule of "doing to others as we would they should do unto us," many particular precepts might be omitted. We can have no property in any thing that we find. Religion teaches us to be neighbourly, and to be ready to do all good offices to all men. We know not how soon we may have occasion for help.
Deuteronomy 22:5-12 Verses 5-12
God's providence extends itself to the smallest affairs, and his precepts do so, that even in them we may be in the fear of the Lord, as we are under his eye and care. Yet the tendency of these laws, which seem little, is such, that being found among the things of God's law, they are to be accounted great things. If we would prove ourselves to be God's people, we must have respect to his will and to his glory, and not to the vain fashions of the world. Even in putting on our garments, as in eating or in drinking, all must be done with a serious regard to preserve our own and others' purity in heart and actions. Our eye should be single, our heart simple, and our behaviour all of a piece.
Deuteronomy 22:13-30 Verses 13-30
These and the like regulations might be needful then, and yet it is not necessary that we should curiously examine respecting them. The laws relate to the seventh commandment, laying a restraint upon fleshly lusts which war against the soul.