2 although thy brother be not nigh, and thou know him not: thou shalt bring them unto thy house, and they shall be with thee until thy brother seek them, and receive them.📜💬📚

3 In like manner shalt thou do with his ass, and with his raiment, and with every thing of thy brother's, that shall be lost: if thou find it, neglect it not as pertaining to another.📜💬📚

4 If thou see thy brother's ass or oxe to be fallen in the way, thou shalt not contemn it, but shalt lift it up with him.📜💬📚

5 A woman shall not be clothed with man's apparel, neither shall a man use woman's apparel: for he is abominable before God that doeth these things.📜💬📚

6 If walking by the way thou find a bird's nest in a tree or on the ground, and the dam sitting upon the young or the eggs: thou shalt not hold her with her young,📜💬📚

7 but shalt let her go, taking the young and holding them: that it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live a long time.📜💬📚

8 When thou buildest a new house, thou shalt make a battlement to the roof round about: lest blood be shed in thy house, and thou be guilty, another slipping, and falling headlong.📜💬📚

9 Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with diverse seed: lest both the seed which thou didst sow, and the things that grow of the vineyard be sanctified together.📜💬📚

10 Thou shalt not plough with an oxe and ass together.📜💬📚

11 Thou shalt not wear a garment that is woven of wool and linen.📜💬📚

12 Thou shalt make little cords in the hem at the four corners of thy cloak, wherewith thou shalt be covered.📜💬📚

Marriage Violations

13 If a man marry a wife, and afterward hate her,📜💬📚

14 and seek occasions to put her away, objecting unto her a very ill name, and say: I took this wife, and companying with her: I found her not a virgin:📜💬📚

15 her father and mother shall take her, and shall carry with them the signs of her virginity to the ancients of the city that are in the gate:📜💬📚

16 and the father shall say: I gave my daughter unto this man to wife: whom because he hateth,📜💬📚

17 he layeth unto her a very ill name, so that he saith: I found not thy daughter a virgin: and behold these are the signs of my daughters virginity. They shall spread the vesture before the ancients of the city:📜💬📚

18 and the ancients of that city shall take the man, and beat him,📜💬📚

19 condemning him besides, in a hundred sicles of silver, which he shall give to the wench's father, because he hath infamously spread a very ill name upon a virgin of Israel: and he shall have her to wife, and can not put her away all the days of his life.📜💬📚

20 But if it be true which he objected, and virginity be not found in the wench,📜💬📚

21 they shall cast her forth without the doors of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death, & she shall die: because she hath done wickedness in Israel, to fornicate in her father's house: and thou shalt take away the evil out of the midst of thee.📜💬📚

22 If a man lie with an other's man wife, both shall die, that is to say, the adulterer and the adulteress: and thou shalt take away the evil out of Israel.📜💬📚

23 If a man have despoused a maid that is a virgin, and some man find her in the city, & lie with her,📜💬📚

24 thou shalt bring forth both of them to the gate of that city, & they shall be stoned: the maid, because she cried not, being in the city: the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife, and thou shalt take away the evil from the midst of thee.📜💬📚

25 But if the man find the maid that is despoused in the field, and taking her lie with her, he alone shall die:📜💬📚

26 the maid shall suffer nothing, neither is she guilty of death: for as a thief riseth against his brother, and taketh away his life, so also did the maid suffer.📜💬📚

27 She was alone in the field: she cried, and there was no man to deliver her.📜💬📚

28 If a man find a maid that is a virgin, which hath not a spouse, and taking her lie with her, and the matter come into judgment,📜💬📚

29 he that lay with her, shall give to the father of the maid fifty sicles of silver, and shall have her to wife, because he hath humbled her: he can not put her away all the days of his life.📜💬📚

30 No man shall take his father's wife, nor reveal his covering.📜💬📚

Douay Rheims Original ↷

Deuteronomy 22 📜 📕 ↷

Various Laws

Marriage Violations

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