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Deuteronomy 22:5-12 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

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.

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