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Deuteronomy 22:8-17 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

8. When you build a new house, you shall make a wall around the roof. Otherwise, someone may slip and fall down violently, and so blood would be shed at your house, and you would be guilty.

9. You shall not sow your vineyard with another seed, lest both the seed that you have sown and what springs forth from the vineyard be sanctified together.

10. You shall not till with an ox and a donkey at the same time.

11. You shall not wear a vestment which has been woven from both wool and linen.

12. You shall make strings along the hem, at the four corners of your cloak, which covers you.

13. If a man takes a wife, and afterwards he has hatred for her,

14. and so he seeks opportunities to dismiss her, imputing a very wicked name to her by saying, 'I received this woman as a wife, and upon entering to her, I found her not to be a virgin,'

15. then her father and mother shall take her, and they shall bring with them the signs of her virginity, to the elders of the city who are at the gate.

16. And the father shall say: 'I gave my daughter to this man as a wife. And because he hates her,

17. he accuses her with a very wicked name, by saying: "I did not find your daughter to be a virgin." But behold, these are the signs of my daughter's virginity.' And they shall spread the clothing before the elders of the city.

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