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.
其他條例
1「如果你們看見同胞的牛或羊走迷了路，不可視而不見，要把牠帶回去交給失主。 2如果失主離你們很遠，或者你們不知道失主是誰，就要把牠牽回家，等失主來找時再還給他。 3見到同胞遺失的驢、衣物或其他東西，都要這樣處理，不可視而不見。 4如果在路上看見同胞的牛或驢倒在地上，不可視而不見，要幫忙把牠扶起來。
5「女人不可穿戴男人的衣物，男人也不可穿戴女人的衣物，因為這是你們的上帝耶和華所憎惡的。
6「如果你們在路邊的樹上或地上看見鳥巢，裡面有雛鳥或蛋，並有母鳥伏在上面，不可把母鳥和雛鳥一起取走。 7你們可以取走雛鳥，但一定要放走母鳥。這樣，你們就會凡事順利，得享長壽。
8「建造新房時，要在房頂22·8 以色列人的房子都是平頂房。上安設圍欄，免得有人從房頂上掉下來，由你們家承擔流血之罪。
9「你們不可在葡萄園裡種別的作物，否則你們的收成和園中的果子都要充公。 10不可讓牛和驢同負一軛耕地。 11不可穿由羊毛和細麻合織的衣物。
12「要在外袍的四角綴上穗子。
有關女子貞操的條例
13「如果有人娶了妻子，與她同房後卻不喜歡她， 14誹謗她，說，『我娶了她，與她親近時發現她已經不是處女』， 15女方父母就要把憑據拿到城門口的長老們面前，證明女兒的貞潔。 16女方的父親要對他們說，『我把女兒嫁給這個人，現在他不喜歡我女兒， 17誹謗她，聲稱她結婚時已經不是處女，但這裡有我女兒貞潔的憑據。』女方父母要把女兒新婚之夜用過的床單在本城的長老們面前展開。 18長老們就必須抓住那人懲處他， 19罰他賠償二十兩銀子給女方的父親，因為他誹謗了一個以色列的處女。那女子仍要做他妻子，丈夫終生不可休她。
20「但如果那人的指控屬實，沒有找到那女子貞潔的憑據， 21就要把她帶到她父親的家門前，由本城的人用石頭打死她。因為她婚前淫亂，在以色列做了可恥的事。你們必須除掉你們中間的罪惡。
22「如果有人與有夫之婦通姦，必須處死姦夫和淫婦，這樣就從以色列除掉了罪惡。
23「如果有人在城中遇見已經訂婚的女子，與她行淫， 24你們必須把二人帶到城門口，用石頭打死他們。那女子該死，因為她在城中卻沒有高聲呼救；那男子該死，因為他姦污了別人的妻子。你們必須除去你們中間的罪惡。
25「如果有人在野外遇見已經訂婚的女子，強姦了她，必須處死那男子。 26但不可處死那女子，因為她沒有犯該死的罪，她像被攻擊、殺害的人一樣是無辜的。 27因為她是在野外被強姦，即使呼救也無人救她。
28「如果有人遇見未訂婚的處女，強姦了她，被發現後， 29這人要付給女方的父親十兩銀子，並娶她為妻，終生不可休她，因為他姦污了她。
30「人不可娶他父親的妻妾，因為這是對他父親的羞辱。
