Deuteronomy 22 · Parashat Ki Teitzei

Thou shalt not see thy brother’s ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely bring them back to thy brother.

And if thy brother be not near to thee, or if thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it to thy own house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore it to him again.

In like manner shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do with his garment; and with every lost thing of thy brother’s, which he has lost, and thou hast found, shalt thou do likewise: thou mayst not hide thyself.

Thou shalt not see thy brother’s ass or his ox fall down by the way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely help him to lift them up again.

A woman shall not wear that which pertains to a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so are abomination to the Lord thy God.

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 mother bird sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the mother bird together with the young:

but thou shalt surely let the mother go, and take the young to thee; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayst prolong thy days.

When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a parapet for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thy house, if any man fall from it.

Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of the seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of the vineyard, be forfeited.

Thou shalt not plough with an ox and an ass together.

Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers kinds, of woollen and linen together.

Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four corners of thy covering, with which thou coverest thyself.

If any man take a wife, and go in to her, and hate her,

and lay accusing speeches against her, and bring out an evil name upon her, saying, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not to be a virgin:

then shall the father of the girl, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the girl’s virginity to the elders of the city in the gate:

and the girl’s father shall say to the elders, I gave my daughter to this man to wife, and he hated her;

and, lo, he has laid accusing speeches against her, saying, I found not thy daughter a virgin; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter’s virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.

And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him;

and they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver, and give them to the father of the girl, because he has brought out an evil name upon a virgin of Yisra᾽el: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.

But if this thing be true, and tokens of virginity be not found for the girl:

then they shall bring out the girl to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she has perpetrated wantonness in Yisra᾽el, to play the harlot in her father’s house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.

If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Yisra᾽el.

If a girl that is a virgin be betrothed to a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;

then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them with stones that they die; the girl, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he has humbled his neighbour’s wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you.

But if a man find a betrothed girl in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her: then only the man that lay with her shall die:

but to the girl thou shalt do nothing; there is in the girl no sin worthy of death: for as when a man rises against his neighbour, and slays him, even so is this matter:

for he found her in the field, and the betrothed maiden cried out, but there was none to save her.

If a man find a girl that is a virgin, who is not betrothed, and lay hold of her, and lie with her, and they be found;

then the man that lay with her shall give to the girl’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.