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Deuteronomy 22:8-18 Good News Bible Anglicised (GNBDC)

8. “When you build a new house, be sure to put a railing round the edge of the roof. Then you will not be responsible if someone falls off and is killed.

9. “Do not plant any crop in the same field as your grapevines; if you do, you are forbidden to use either the grapes or the produce of the other crop.

10. “Do not hitch an ox and a donkey together for ploughing.

11. “Do not wear cloth made by weaving wool and linen together.

12. “Sew tassels on the four corners of your clothes.

13. “Suppose a man marries a woman and later he decides he doesn't want her.

14. So he makes up false charges against her, accusing her of not being a virgin when they got married.

15. “If this happens, the woman's parents are to take the blood-stained wedding sheet that proves she was a virgin, and they are to show it in court to the town leaders.

16. Her father will say to them, ‘I gave my daughter to this man in marriage, and now he doesn't want her.

17. He has made false charges against her, saying that she was not a virgin when he married her. But here is the proof that my daughter was a virgin; look at the bloodstains on the wedding sheet!’

18. Then the town leaders are to take the husband and beat him.

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