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. 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. 3Do the same if you find their donkey or cloak or anything else they have lost. Do not ignore it.
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.
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.
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. 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.
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.
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.22:9 Or be forfeited to the sanctuary
10Do not plow with an ox and a donkey yoked together.
11Do not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together.
12Make tassels on the four corners of the cloak you wear.
Marriage Violations
13If a man takes a wife and, after sleeping with her, dislikes 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,” 15then the young woman’s father and mother shall bring to the town elders at the gate proof that she was a virgin. 16Her father will say to the elders, “I gave my daughter in marriage to this man, but he dislikes 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, 18and the elders shall take the man and punish him. 19They shall fine him a hundred shekels22:19 That is, about 2 1/2 pounds or about 1.2 kilograms 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.
20If, however, the charge is true and no proof of the young woman’s virginity can be found, 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.
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.
23If a man happens to meet in a town a virgin pledged to be married and he sleeps 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.
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. 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, 27for the man found the young woman out in the country, and though the betrothed woman screamed, 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, 29he shall pay her father fifty shekels22:29 That is, about 1 1/4 pounds or about 575 grams of silver. He must marry the young woman, for he has violated her. He can 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.22:30 In Hebrew texts this verse (22:30) is numbered 23:1.
其他条例
1“如果你们看见同胞的牛或羊走迷了路，不可视而不见，要把它带回去交给失主。 2如果失主离你们很远，或者你们不知道失主是谁，就要把它牵回家，等失主来找时再还给他。 3见到同胞遗失的驴、衣物或其他东西，都要这样处理，不可视而不见。 4如果在路上看见同胞的牛或驴倒在地上，不可视而不见，要帮忙把它扶起来。
5“女人不可穿戴男人的衣物，男人也不可穿戴女人的衣物，因为这是你们的上帝耶和华所憎恶的。
6“如果你们在路边的树上或地上看见鸟巢，里面有雏鸟或蛋，并有母鸟伏在上面，不可把母鸟和雏鸟一起取走。 7你们可以取走雏鸟，但一定要放走母鸟。这样，你们就会凡事顺利，得享长寿。
8“建造新房时，要在房顶22:8 以色列人的房子都是平顶房。上安设围栏，免得有人从房顶上掉下来，由你们家承担流血之罪。
9“你们不可在葡萄园里种别的作物，否则你们的收成和园中的果子都要充公。 10不可让牛和驴同负一轭耕地。 11不可穿由羊毛和细麻合织的衣物。
12“要在外袍的四角缀上穗子。
有关女子贞操的条例
13“如果有人娶了妻子，与她同房后却不喜欢她， 14诽谤她，说，‘我娶了她，与她亲近时发现她已经不是处女’， 15女方父母就要把凭据拿到城门口的长老们面前，证明女儿的贞洁。 16女方的父亲要对他们说，‘我把女儿嫁给这个人，现在他不喜欢我女儿， 17诽谤她，声称她结婚时已经不是处女，但这里有我女儿贞洁的凭据。’女方父母要把女儿新婚之夜用过的床单在本城的长老们面前展开。 18长老们就必须抓住那人惩处他， 19罚他赔偿二十两银子给女方的父亲，因为他诽谤了一个以色列的处女。那女子仍要做他妻子，丈夫终生不可休她。
20“但如果那人的指控属实，没有找到那女子贞洁的凭据， 21就要把她带到她父亲的家门前，由本城的人用石头打死她。因为她婚前淫乱，在以色列做了可耻的事。你们必须除掉你们中间的罪恶。
22“如果有人与有夫之妇通奸，必须处死奸夫和淫妇，这样就从以色列除掉了罪恶。
23“如果有人在城中遇见已经订婚的女子，与她行淫， 24你们必须把二人带到城门口，用石头打死他们。那女子该死，因为她在城中却没有高声呼救；那男子该死，因为他奸污了别人的妻子。你们必须除去你们中间的罪恶。
25“如果有人在野外遇见已经订婚的女子，强奸了她，必须处死那男子。 26但不可处死那女子，因为她没有犯该死的罪，她像被攻击、杀害的人一样是无辜的。 27因为她是在野外被强奸，即使呼救也无人救她。
28“如果有人遇见未订婚的处女，强奸了她，被发现后， 29这人要付给女方的父亲十两银子，并娶她为妻，终生不可休她，因为他奸污了她。
30“人不可娶他父亲的妻妾，因为这是对他父亲的羞辱。
