Deuteronomy:22

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* Thou shalt not see thy brother 's ox or his sheep go astray , and (note :)As though your did not see it .(:note ) hide thyself from them : thou shalt in any case bring them again unto thy brother . * And if thy brother [be ] not (note :)Showing that brotherly affection must be shown , not only to those who dwell near to us , but also to those who are far off .(:note ) nigh unto thee , or if thou know him not , then thou shalt bring it unto thine 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 (note :)You are bound to do much more for your neighbour .(:note ) ass ; and so shalt thou do with his raiment ; and with all lost thing of thy brother 's , which he hath lost , and thou hast found , shalt thou do likewise : thou mayest not hide thyself . * Thou shalt not see thy brothers asse nor his oxe fal downe by the way , and withdrawe thy selfe from them , but shalt lift them vp with him . * The (note :)For that alters the order of nature , and shows that you despise God .(:note ) woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man , neither shall a man put on a woman 's garment : for all that do so [are ] abomination unto 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 dam sitting upon the young , or upon the eggs , (note :)If God detests cruelty done to little birds , how much more to man , made according to his image ?(:note ) thou shalt not take the dam with the young : * But shalt in any wise let the damme go , &amp ; take the yong to thee , that thou mayest prosper and prolong thy dayes . * When thou buildest a newe house , thou shalt make a battlemet on thy roofe , that thou lay not blood vpo thine house , if any man fal thence . * Thou shalt not (note :)The tenor of this law is to walk in simplicity and not to be curious about new fads .(:note ) sow thy vineyard with divers seeds : lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown , and the fruit of thy vineyard , be defiled . * Thou shalt not plow with an oxe and an asse together . * Thou shalt not weare a garment of diuers sorts , as of woollen and linen together . * Thou shalt make thee fringes vpon the foure quarters of thy vesture , wherewith thou couerest thy selfe . * If a man take a wife , and when he hath lyen with her , hate her , * And give (note :)That is , be an occasion that she is slandered .(:note ) 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 : * Then shal the father of the mayde and her mother take and bring the signes of the maydes virginitie vnto the Elders of the citie to the gate . * And the maydes father shall say vnto the Elders , I gaue my daughter vnto this man to wife , and he hateth her : * 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 (note :)Meaning , the sheet , in which the signs of her virginity were .(:note ) cloth before the elders of the city . * Then the Elders of the citie shal take that man and chastise him , * And they shall amerce him in an hundred [shekels ] of silver , and give [them ] unto the father (note :)For the fault of the child becomes the shame of the parents : therefore he was recompensed when she was faultless .(:note ) 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 . * But if this thing be true , that the mayde be not found a virgine , * Then shall they bring forth the mayde to the doore of her fathers house , &amp ; the men of her citie shal stone her with stones to death : for shee hath wrought follie in Israel , by playing ye whore in her fathers house : so thou shalt put euill away from among you . * If a man be found lying with a woman marryed to a man , then they shall dye euen both twaine : to wit , the man that lay with the wife , &amp ; the wife : so thou shalt put away euil from Israel . * If a maid be betrothed vnto an husband , &amp ; a man finde her in the towne &amp ; lye with her , * Then shall yee bring them both out vnto the gates of the same citie , and shall stone them with stones to death : the mayde because she cried not , being in the citie , &amp ; the man , because he hath humbled his neighbours wife : so thou shalt put away euill from among you . * But if a man finde a betrothed mayde in the field , and force her , and lye with her , then the man that lay with her , shal dye alone : * 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 (note :)Meaning , that the innocent cannot be punished .(:note ) [is ] this matter : * For he found her in the fieldes : the betrothed mayde cryed , and there was no man to succour her . * If a man finde a mayde that is not betrothed , and take her , and lye with her , and they be founde , * Then the man that lay with her , shall giue vnto the maydes father fiftie shekels of siluer : and she shalbe his wife , because he hath humbled her : he can not put her away all his life . * A man shall not (note :)He shall not lie with his stepmother , meaning by this all other variations forbidden in (Leviticus . strkjv @18:1-30 ).(:note ) take his father 's wife , nor discover his father 's skirt .

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