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| 1If you see your fellow Israelite's ox or sheep straying, do not ignore it but be sure to take it back to its owner. | 1When you see your neighbor's ox or sheep going astray, do not ignore it; you must return it without fail to your neighbor. |
| 2If they do not live near you or if you do not know who owns it, take it home with you and keep it until they come looking for it. Then give it back. | 2If the owner does not live near you or you do not know who the owner is, then you must corral the animal at your house and let it stay with you until the owner looks for it; then you must return it to him. |
| 3Do the same if you find their donkey or cloak or anything else they have lost. Do not ignore it. | 3You shall do the same to his donkey, his clothes, or anything else your neighbor has lost and you have found; you must not refuse to get involved. |
| 4If you see your fellow Israelite's donkey or ox fallen on the road, do not ignore it. Help the owner get it to its feet. | 4When you see your neighbor's donkey or ox fallen along the road, do not ignore it; instead, you must be sure to help him get the animal on its feet again. |
| 5A woman must not wear men's clothing, nor a man wear women's clothing, for the LORD your God detests anyone who does this. | 5A woman must not wear men's clothing, nor should a man dress up in women's clothing, for anyone who does this is offensive to the LORD your God. |
| 6If you come across a bird's nest beside the road, either in a tree or on the ground, and the mother is sitting on the young or on the eggs, do not take the mother with the young. | 6If you happen to notice a bird's nest along the road, whether in a tree or on the ground, and there are chicks or eggs with the mother bird sitting on them, you must not take the mother from the young. |
| 7You may take the young, but be sure to let the mother go, so that it may go well with you and you may have a long life. | 7You must be sure to let the mother go, but you may take the young for yourself. Do this so that it may go well with you and you may have a long life. |
| 8When you build a new house, make a parapet around your roof so that you may not bring the guilt of bloodshed on your house if someone falls from the roof. | 8If you build a new house, you must construct a guard rail around your roof to avoid being culpable in the event someone should fall from it. |
| 9Do not plant two kinds of seed in your vineyard; if you do, not only the crops you plant but also the fruit of the vineyard will be defiled. | 9You must not plant your vineyard with two kinds of seed; otherwise the entire yield, both of the seed you plant and the produce of the vineyard, will be defiled. |
| 10Do not plow with an ox and a donkey yoked together. | 10You must not plow with an ox and a donkey harnessed together. |
| 11Do not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together. | 11You must not wear clothing made with wool and linen meshed together. |
| 12Make tassels on the four corners of the cloak you wear. | 12You shall make yourselves tassels for the four corners of the clothing you wear. |
| 13If a man takes a wife and, after sleeping with her, dislikes her | 13Suppose a man marries a woman, has sexual relations with her, and then rejects her, |
| 14and slanders her and gives her a bad name, saying, "I married this woman, but when I approached her, I did not find proof of her virginity," | 14accusing her of impropriety and defaming her reputation by saying, "I married this woman but when I had sexual relations with her I discovered she was not a virgin!" |
| 15then the young woman's father and mother shall bring to the town elders at the gate proof that she was a virgin. | 15Then the father and mother of the young woman must produce the evidence of virginity for the elders of the city at the gate. |
| 16Her father will say to the elders, "I gave my daughter in marriage to this man, but he dislikes her. | 16The young woman's father must say to the elders, "I gave my daughter to this man and he has rejected her. |
| 17Now he has slandered her and said, 'I did not find your daughter to be a virgin.' But here is the proof of my daughter's virginity." Then her parents shall display the cloth before the elders of the town, | 17Moreover, he has raised accusations of impropriety by saying, 'I discovered your daughter was not a virgin,' but this is the evidence of my daughter's virginity!" The cloth must then be spread out before the city's elders. |
| 18and the elders shall take the man and punish him. | 18The elders of that city must then seize the man and punish him. |
| 19They shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the young woman's father, because this man has given an Israelite virgin a bad name. She shall continue to be his wife; he must not divorce her as long as he lives. | 19They will fine him one hundred shekels of silver and give them to the young woman's father, for the man who made the accusation ruined the reputation of an Israelite virgin. She will then become his wife and he may never divorce her as long as he lives. |
| 20If, however, the charge is true and no proof of the young woman's virginity can be found, | 20But if the accusation is true and the young woman was not a virgin, |
| 21she shall be brought to the door of her father's house and there the men of her town shall stone her to death. She has done an outrageous thing in Israel by being promiscuous while still in her father's house. You must purge the evil from among you. | 21the men of her city must bring the young woman to the door of her father's house and stone her to death, for she has done a disgraceful thing in Israel by behaving like a prostitute while living in her father's house. In this way you will purge evil from among you. |
| 22If a man is found sleeping with another man's wife, both the man who slept with her and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel. | 22If a man is caught having sexual relations with a married woman both the man who had relations with the woman and the woman herself must die; in this way you will purge evil from Israel. |
| 23If a man happens to meet in a town a virgin pledged to be married and he sleeps with her, | 23If a virgin is engaged to a man and another man meets her in the city and has sexual relations with her, |
| 24you shall take both of them to the gate of that town and stone them to death--the young woman because she was in a town and did not scream for help, and the man because he violated another man's wife. You must purge the evil from among you. | 24you must bring the two of them to the gate of that city and stone them to death, the young woman because she did not cry out though in the city and the man because he violated his neighbor's fiancee; in this way you will purge evil from among you. |
| 25But if out in the country a man happens to meet a young woman pledged to be married and rapes her, only the man who has done this shall die. | 25But if the man came across the engaged woman in the field and overpowered her and raped her, then only the rapist must die. |
| 26Do nothing to the woman; she has committed no sin deserving death. This case is like that of someone who attacks and murders a neighbor, | 26You must not do anything to the young woman--she has done nothing deserving of death. This case is the same as when someone attacks another person and murders him, |
| 27for the man found the young woman out in the country, and though the betrothed woman screamed, there was no one to rescue her. | 27for the man met her in the field and the engaged woman cried out, but there was no one to rescue her. |
| 28If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, | 28Suppose a man comes across a virgin who is not engaged and overpowers and rapes her and they are discovered. |
| 29he shall pay her father fifty shekels of silver. He must marry the young woman, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives. | 29The man who has raped her must pay her father fifty shekels of silver and she must become his wife because he has violated her; he may never divorce her as long as he lives. |
| 30A man is not to marry his father's wife; he must not dishonor his father's bed. | 30A man may not marry his father's former wife and in this way dishonor his father. |
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