1. If you see a cow or sheep wandering around lost, take the animal back to its owner.
2. If the owner lives too far away, or if you don't know who the owner is, take the animal home with you and take care of it. The owner will come looking for the animal, and then you can give it back.
3. That's what you should do if you find anything that belongs to someone else. Do whatever you can to help, whether you find a cow or sheep or donkey or some clothing.
4. Oxen and donkeys that carry heavy loads can stumble and fall, and be unable to get up by themselves. So as you walk along the road, help anyone who is trying to get an ox or donkey back on its feet.
5. Women must not pretend to be men, and men must not pretend to be women. The Lord your God is disgusted with people who do that.
6-7. As you walk along the road, you might see a bird's nest in a tree or on the ground. If the mother bird is in the nest with either her eggs or her baby birds, you are allowed to take the baby birds or the eggs, but not the mother bird. Let her go free, and the Lord will bless you with a long and successful life.
8. If you build a house, make sure to put a low wall around the edge of the flat roof. Then if someone falls off the roof and is killed, it won't be your fault.
9. If you plant a vineyard, don't plant any other fruit tree or crop in it. If you do plant something else there, you must bring to the place of worship everything you harvest from the vineyard.
10. Don't hitch an ox and a donkey to your plough at the same time.
11. When you weave cloth for clothing, you can use thread made of flax or wool, but not both together.
12. And when you make a coat, sew a tassel on each of the four corners.
13. Suppose a man starts hating his wife soon after they are married.
14. He might tell ugly lies about her, and say, “I married this woman, but when we slept together, I found out she wasn't a virgin.”
15. If this happens, the bride's father and mother must go to the town gate to show the town leaders the proof that the woman was a virgin.
16. Her father will say, “I let my daughter marry this man, but he started hating her
17. and accusing her of not being a virgin. But he is wrong, because here is proof that she was a virgin!” Then the bride's parents will show them the bed sheet from the woman's wedding night.
18. The town leaders will beat the man with a whip