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Deuter­­onomy 22:2-20 Modern English Version (MEV)

2. If your brother is not near you or if you do not know him, then you are to bring it to your own house, and it will be with you until your brother seeks after it. Then you must return it to him.

3. In the same way, you must do so with his donkey, with his clothing, and with anything lost by your brother which he has lost and you have found. You must not hide yourself from him.

4. You are not to see your brother’s donkey or his ox fall down by the way and hide yourself from them. You certainly must help him to lift them up.

5. A woman must not wear man’s clothing, nor is a man to put on a woman’s clothing. For all that do so are abominations to the Lord your God.

6. If you happen to notice a bird’s nest along the way, in any tree or on the ground, whether they be young ones or eggs, and the mother is sitting on the young or on the eggs, you are not to take the mother from the young.

7. You must certainly let the mother go, but you may take the young for yourself, so that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days.

8. When you build a new house, you must make a guard rail for your roof so that you bring no blood guilt on your house, should anyone fall from there.

9. You must not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seeds, or the fruit of your seed which you have sown and the fruit of your vineyard will be defiled.

10. You must not plow with an ox and a donkey together.

11. You must not wear clothing made of a material of wool and linen together.

12. You must make tassels on the four quarters of your clothing with which you cover yourself.

13. If any man takes a wife and has sexual relations with her and then rejects her,

14. and accuses her of impropriety and publicly defames her, saying, “I married this woman, but when I had sexual relations with her, I found her not to be a virgin,”

15. then the father and mother of the girl must produce evidence of the girl’s virginity to the elders of the city at the gate.

16. The girl’s father must say to the elders, “I gave my daughter to this man to wife, and he has rejected her.

17. What is more, he has accused her of impropriety, saying, ‘I did not find your daughter to be a virgin.’ However, this is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity.” And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.

18. The elders of that city must take that man and punish him,

19. and they must fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the father of the girl, because he has publicly humiliated a virgin of Israel. Then she is to remain his wife. He may not divorce her all his days.

20. But if the accusation is true, and the evidence of virginity does not exist for the girl,

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