Deuteronomy 22

Ward Green Version, 2003	American Standard Version, 1901
© 2008 Ward Green. All rights reserved. Draft Version Deuteronomy 22 ¹Do not be seeing the bull of your brother's or a smaller animal of his flock wandering and blindly turn away from them. Rescue them and return them to him. ²If your brother does not live nearby or you know nothing about him, take them into your own safekeeping until your brother shows up to investigate, and then return them to him. ³The same goes for a jackass or a garment or anything your brother loses that is lost and found. You are not permitted to keep it concealed. ⁴Do not be seeing your brother's male donkey or his bull fallen on the road and hide. Brace yourself and help him to lift it up. ⁵Don't equip a woman with a man's things and don't clothe a man with a woman's garment, because everyone who does such a thing is disgusting to Jehovah God. ⁶If you chance to come to a bird's nest in a tree beside the road or on the ground, having hatchlings or eggs, and the mother is sitting upon any hatchlings or upon any eggs, do not take the mother along with the young. ⁷Just be sure to let the mother go free, but the young ones you may keep, with the consequence happiness and a lengthening of days. ⁸When you build a new house, make walls or a railing around any deck and no bloodguilt may be brought on your family when someone falls from it and dies. ⁹Don't plant a vineyard with different kinds of seed lest you defile both the seed which you planted and the harvest. ¹⁰Don't plow with a bull and a jackass team. ¹¹Don't wear garments of blended fabric such as wool woven with linen. ¹²Make borders on the four edges of garments in order to bolster them. ¹³If a man takes a wife and has come to hate her ¹⁴and makes false accusations bringing her a bad name saying: ``This woman I took as wife but when I came to her there was no evidence of virginity,'' ¹⁵take the father of the girl and the mother and bring out the evidence of the girl's virginity in front of the elders at the gates of the city, ¹⁶so the girl's father may tell the elders: ``I gave my daughter to this man as his wife, and he hates her ¹⁷and is making false accusations saying he has found no evidence of virginity in my daughter, so here are the signs of my daughter's virginity.'' Now he may present the dress in front of the elders of the city. ¹⁸Then the elders of the city may seize him and chastise the man. ¹⁹He will be fined a hundred silver pieces, to be given to the father of the girl, seeing as he caused severe shame to a virgin of Israel. The woman is to become his wife and he may not send her away for the remainder of his life. ²⁰But when the truth is spoken and it turns out that there is no evidence of the girl's virginity, ²¹then they shall bring her out of the door of her father's house, and the men of the city shall stone her to death because she did a disgraceful thing in Israel by committing adultery in the house of her father. Destroy evil from out of your midst. ²²If a man is found sleeping with a married woman then they both are to die, both the man who lay with the woman as well as the woman. Destroy what is bad out of Israel. ²³If there is a virgin girl engaged to a man and a man finds her in the city and lies down with her, ²⁴then you shall bring these two both out to the gates of the city and stone them with stones until they die, the girl for the reason that she did not scream in the city, and the man for the reason that he degraded the wife of his fellowman. Destroy evil from out of your midst. ²⁵But if the man found the engaged girl in a field and forced her to lay down with him, the man is to be put to death by himself, ²⁶but nothing is to be done to the girl. She has done nothing worthy of death. It is as when a man rises up against his brother and kills him-- it's like that, ²⁷because he found her in the field, and the engaged girl screamed, but there was no one to hear her. ²⁸If a man finds a girl who is a virgin, not engaged, and seizes her and lies down with her, once it has become known, ²⁹the man who lay with her shall give to the girl's father fifty silver pieces (about two months' wages), and she shall become his wife. Whereas, because he devalued her, he may not send her away for the remainder of his life. ³⁰A man is not to take his father's wife nor expose the fringes of his father. © 2008 Ward Green. All rights reserved.	Deuteronomy 22 1 Thou shalt not see thy brother`s ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely bring them again unto thy brother. Deuteronomy 22 2 And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it home to thy house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore it to him. Deuteronomy 22 3 And so shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do with his garment; and so shalt thou do with every lost thing of thy brother`s, which he hath lost, and thou hast found: thou mayest not hide thyself. Deuteronomy 22 4 Thou shalt not see thy brother`s ass or his ox fallen down by the way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely help him to lift them up again. Deuteronomy 22 5 A woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman`s garment; for whosoever doeth these things is an abomination unto Jehovah thy God. Deuteronomy 22 6 If a bird`s nest chance to be before thee in the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young: Deuteronomy 22 7 thou shalt surely let the dam go, but the young thou mayest take unto thyself; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days. Deuteronomy 22 8 When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thy house, if any man fall from thence. Deuteronomy 22 9 Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the whole fruit be forfeited, the seed which thou hast sown, and the increase of the vineyard. Deuteronomy 22 10 Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together. Deuteronomy 22 11 Thou shalt not wear a mingled stuff, wool and linen together. Deuteronomy 22 12 Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four borders of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself. Deuteronomy 22 13 If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her, Deuteronomy 22 14 and lay shameful things to her charge, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came nigh to her, I found not in her the tokens of virginity; Deuteronomy 22 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; Deuteronomy 22 16 and the damsel`s father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her; Deuteronomy 22 17 and, lo, he hath laid shameful things [to her charge], saying, I found not in thy 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. Deuteronomy 22 18 And the elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him; Deuteronomy 22 19 and they shall fine him a 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. Deuteronomy 22 20 But if this thing be true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the damsel; Deuteronomy 22 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 to death with stones, because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the harlot in her father`s house: so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee. Deuteronomy 22 22 If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away the evil from Israel. Deuteronomy 22 23 If there be a damsel that is a virgin betrothed unto a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her; Deuteronomy 22 24 then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them to death with stones; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbor`s wife: so thou shalt put away the evil from the midst of thee. Deuteronomy 22 25 But if the man find the damsel that is betrothed in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her; then the man only that lay with her shall die: Deuteronomy 22 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 neighbor, and slayeth him, even so is this matter; Deuteronomy 22 27 for he found her in the field, the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her. Deuteronomy 22 28 If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, that is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found; Deuteronomy 22 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. Deuteronomy 22 30 A man shall not take his father`s wife, and shall not uncover his father`s skirt.

Ward Green Version, 2003

American Standard Version, 1901

© 2008 Ward Green. All rights reserved.
Draft Version
Deuteronomy 22
¹Do not be seeing the bull of your brother's or a smaller animal of his flock wandering and blindly turn away from them. Rescue them and return them to him.

²If your brother does not live nearby or you know nothing about him, take them into your own safekeeping until your brother shows up to investigate, and then return them to him.

³The same goes for a jackass or a garment or anything your brother loses that is lost and found. You are not permitted to keep it concealed.

⁴Do not be seeing your brother's male donkey or his bull fallen on the road and hide. Brace yourself and help him to lift it up.

⁵Don't equip a woman with a man's things and don't clothe a man with a woman's garment, because everyone who does such a thing is disgusting to Jehovah God.

⁶If you chance to come to a bird's nest in a tree beside the road or on the ground, having hatchlings or eggs, and the mother is sitting upon any hatchlings or upon any eggs, do not take the mother along with the young.

⁷Just be sure to let the mother go free, but the young ones you may keep, with the consequence happiness and a lengthening of days.

⁸When you build a new house, make walls or a railing around any deck and no bloodguilt may be brought on your family when someone falls from it and dies.

⁹Don't plant a vineyard with different kinds of seed lest you defile both the seed which you planted and the harvest.

¹⁰Don't plow with a bull and a jackass team.

¹¹Don't wear garments of blended fabric such as wool woven with linen.

¹²Make borders on the four edges of garments in order to bolster them.

¹³If a man takes a wife and has come to hate her ¹⁴and makes false accusations bringing her a bad name saying: ``This woman I took as wife but when I came to her there was no evidence of virginity,'' ¹⁵take the father of the girl and the mother and bring out the evidence of the girl's virginity in front of the elders at the gates of the city, ¹⁶so the girl's father may tell the elders: ``I gave my daughter to this man as his wife, and he hates her ¹⁷and is making false accusations saying he has found no evidence of virginity in my daughter, so here are the signs of my daughter's virginity.'' Now he may present the dress in front of the elders of the city.

¹⁸Then the elders of the city may seize him and chastise the man. ¹⁹He will be fined a hundred silver pieces, to be given to the father of the girl, seeing as he caused severe shame to a virgin of Israel. The woman is to become his wife and he may not send her away for the remainder of his life.

²⁰But when the truth is spoken and it turns out that there is no evidence of the girl's virginity, ²¹then they shall bring her out of the door of her father's house, and the men of the city shall stone her to death because she did a disgraceful thing in Israel by committing adultery in the house of her father. Destroy evil from out of your midst.

²²If a man is found sleeping with a married woman then they both are to die, both the man who lay with the woman as well as the woman. Destroy what is bad out of Israel.

²³If there is a virgin girl engaged to a man and a man finds her in the city and lies down with her, ²⁴then you shall bring these two both out to the gates of the city and stone them with stones until they die, the girl for the reason that she did not scream in the city, and the man for the reason that he degraded the wife of his fellowman. Destroy evil from out of your midst.

²⁵But if the man found the engaged girl in a field and forced her to lay down with him, the man is to be put to death by himself, ²⁶but nothing is to be done to the girl. She has done nothing worthy of death. It is as when a man rises up against his brother and kills him-- it's like that, ²⁷because he found her in the field, and the engaged girl screamed, but there was no one to hear her.

²⁸If a man finds a girl who is a virgin, not engaged, and seizes her and lies down with her, once it has become known, ²⁹the man who lay with her shall give to the girl's father fifty silver pieces (about two months' wages), and she shall become his wife. Whereas, because he devalued her, he may not send her away for the remainder of his life.

³⁰A man is not to take his father's wife nor expose the fringes of his father.
© 2008 Ward Green. All rights reserved.

Deuteronomy 22 1
Thou shalt not see thy brother`s ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely bring them again unto thy brother.
Deuteronomy 22 2
And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it home to thy house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore it to him.
Deuteronomy 22 3
And so shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do with his garment; and so shalt thou do with every lost thing of thy brother`s, which he hath lost, and thou hast found: thou mayest not hide thyself.
Deuteronomy 22 4
Thou shalt not see thy brother`s ass or his ox fallen down by the way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely help him to lift them up again.
Deuteronomy 22 5
A woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman`s garment; for whosoever doeth these things is an abomination unto Jehovah thy God.
Deuteronomy 22 6
If a bird`s nest chance to be before thee in the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young:
Deuteronomy 22 7
thou shalt surely let the dam go, but the young thou mayest take unto thyself; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days.
Deuteronomy 22 8
When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thy house, if any man fall from thence.
Deuteronomy 22 9
Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the whole fruit be forfeited, the seed which thou hast sown, and the increase of the vineyard.
Deuteronomy 22 10
Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.
Deuteronomy 22 11
Thou shalt not wear a mingled stuff, wool and linen together.
Deuteronomy 22 12
Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four borders of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself.
Deuteronomy 22 13
If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,
Deuteronomy 22 14
and lay shameful things to her charge, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came nigh to her, I found not in her the tokens of virginity;
Deuteronomy 22 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;
Deuteronomy 22 16
and the damsel`s father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her;
Deuteronomy 22 17
and, lo, he hath laid shameful things [to her charge], saying, I found not in thy 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.
Deuteronomy 22 18
And the elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him;
Deuteronomy 22 19
and they shall fine him a 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.
Deuteronomy 22 20
But if this thing be true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the damsel;
Deuteronomy 22 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 to death with stones, because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the harlot in her father`s house: so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee.
Deuteronomy 22 22
If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away the evil from Israel.
Deuteronomy 22 23
If there be a damsel that is a virgin betrothed unto a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;
Deuteronomy 22 24
then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them to death with stones; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbor`s wife: so thou shalt put away the evil from the midst of thee.
Deuteronomy 22 25
But if the man find the damsel that is betrothed in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her; then the man only that lay with her shall die:
Deuteronomy 22 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 neighbor, and slayeth him, even so is this matter;
Deuteronomy 22 27
for he found her in the field, the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her.
Deuteronomy 22 28
If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, that is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;
Deuteronomy 22 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.
Deuteronomy 22 30
A man shall not take his father`s wife, and shall not uncover his father`s skirt.

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