Deuteronomy 22:6-29

Deuteronomy 22:6-29

[6] 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:  [7] 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.  [8] 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  from thence. [9] 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  [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  [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,  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:  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,  so shalt thou put away  evil  from Israel.  [23] If a damsel  that is a virgin  be betrothed  unto an husband,  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.