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Deuteronomy 22:8-22 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

8. “When you build a new house then you shall make a parapet wall for your roof, so that you will not bring bloodguilt on your house if anyone should fall from it.

9. “You shall not sow your vineyard with differing kinds of seed, so that you shall not forfeit the whole harvest, both the seed that you sowed and the yield of the vineyard.

10. “You shall not plow with an ox and with a donkey yoked together.

11. “You shall not wear woven material made of wool and linen mixed together.

12. “You shall make tassels for yourselves on the four corners of your clothing with which you cover yourself.

13. “If a man takes a woman and he has sex with her, but he then dislikes her,

14. and he accuses her falsely, and he defames her, and he says ‘This woman I took and I lay with her and I discovered that she was not a virgin,’

15. then in defense the father of the young woman shall take, along with her mother, and together they must bring out the evidence of the virginity of the young woman to display it to the elders of the city at the city gate.

16. And then the father of the young woman shall say to the elders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man as wife, but he now dislikes her,

17. and now look he has accused her falsely, saying, “I did not find your daughter a virgin,” but here is evidence of the virginity of my daughter’; and they shall spread the cloth out before the elders of the city.

18. Then the elders of that city shall take the man, and they shall discipline him.

19. Then they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver, and they shall give them to the father of the young woman, for he defamed an Israelite young woman, and she shall become his wife; he will not be allowed to divorce her all his days.

20. “But if this charge was true, and the signs of virginity were not found for the young woman,

21. and then they shall bring out the young woman to the doorway of the house of her father, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones, and she shall die, because she did a disgraceful thing in Israel by playing the harlot in the house of her father, and so you shall purge the evil from your midst.

22. “If a man is found lying with a married woman, then they shall both die; both of them, the man who lay with the woman and the woman also, so you shall purge the evil from Israel.

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