CHAP. XXII.
Humanity towards neighbours.
Neither sex may use the
apparel of the other. Cruelty
to be avoided even to
birds. Battlements about
the roof of a house. Things
of divers kinds not to be
mixed. The punishment of
him that slandereth his
wife, as also of adultery
and rape.
1 Thou shalt not pass by
if thou seest thy brother's
ox, or his sheep go astray:
but thou shalt bring
them back to thy brother.
2 And if thy brother be
not nigh, or thou know him
not: thou shalt bring them
to thy house, and they shall
be with thee until thy brother
seek them, and receive
them.
3 Thou shalt do in like
manner with his ass, and with
his raiment, and with every
thing that is thy brother's,
which is lost: if thou find it,
neglect it not as pertaining to
another.
4 If thou see thy brother's
ass or his ox to be fallen down
in the way, thou shalt not
slight it, but shalt lift it up
with him.
5 A woman shall not be
clothed with man's apparel,
neither shall a man use woman's
apparel: for he that
-- --
doth these things is abominable
before God.
6 If thou find, as thou
walkest by the way, a bird's
nest in a tree, or on the ground,
and the dam sitting upon the
young or upon the eggs: thou
note shalt not take her with
her young,
7 But shalt let her go,
keeping the young which thou
hast caught, that it may be well
with thee, and thou mayst live
a long time.
8 When thou buildest a
new house, thou shalt make
a note battlement to the roof
round about: lest blood be
shed in thy house, and thou
be guilty, if any one slip, and
fall down headlong.
9 Thou shalt not sow thy
vineyard with divers seeds:
lest both the seed which thou
hast sown, and the fruit of the
vineyard, be sanctified together.
10 Thou shalt not plow
with an ox and an ass together.
11 Thou shalt not wear
a garment that is woven of
woollen and linen together.
12 Thou shalt make strings
in the hem at the four corners
of thy cloke, wherewith thou
shalt be covered.
13 If a man marry a wife,
and afterwards hate her,
14 And seek occasions to
put her away, laying to her
charge a very ill name, and
say: I took this woman to
wife, and going in to her: I
found her not a virgin:
15 Her father and mother
shall take her, and shall bring
with them the tokens of her
virginity to the ancients of the
city that are in the gate:
16 And the father shall say:
I gave my daughter unto this
man to wife: and because he
hateth her,
17 He layeth to her charge
a very ill name, so as to say:
I found not thy daughter a
virgin: and behold these are
the tokens of my daughter's
virginity. And they shall
spread the cloth before the
ancients of the city:
18 And the ancients of that
city shall take that man, and
beat him,
19 Condemning him besides
in a hundred sicles of
silver, which he shall give to
-- --
the damsel's father, because
he hath defamed by a very ill
name a virgin of Israel: and
he shall have her to wife, and
may not put her away all the
days of his life.
20 But if what he chargeth
her with be true, and
virginity be not found in the
damsel:
21 They shall cast her out
of the doors of her father's
house, and the men of the
city shall stone her to death,
and she shall die: because she
hath done a wicked thing in
Israel, to play the whore in
her father's house: and thou
shalt take away the evil out
of the midst of thee.
22 If a man lie with another
man's wife, they shall
both die, that is to say, the
adulterer and the adulteress:
and thou shalt take away the
evil out of Israel.
23 If a man have espoused
a damsel that is a virgin, and
some one find her in the city,
and lie with her,
24 Thou shalt bring them
both out to the gate of that
city, and they shall be stoned:
the damsel, because she cried
not out, being in the city:
the man, because he hath
humbled his neighbour's wife.
And thou shalt take away
the evil from the midst of
thee.
25 But if a man find a
damsel that is betrothed, in
the field, and taking hold of
her, lie with her, he alone
shall die:
26 The damsel shall suffer
nothing, neither is she guilty
of death: for as a robber
riseth against his brother, and
taketh away his life, so also
did the damsel suffer.
27 She was alone in the
field: she cried, and there was
no man to help her.
28 If a man find a damsel
that is a virgin, who is not
espoused, and taking her lie
with her, and the matter come
to judgment:
29 He that lay with her,
shall give to the father of the
maid fifty sicles of silver, and
shall have her to wife, because
he hath humbled her:
he may not put her away all
the days of his life.
30 No man shall take his
father's wife, nor remove his
covering.
Challoner [1752], THE NEW TESTAMENT OF Our LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. Translated out of the Latin Vulgat Diligently compared with the original Greek And first published by the English College of Rhemes, anno 1582. Newly revised, and corrected according to the Clementin Edition of the Scriptures. WITH ANNOTATIONS For clearing up modern Controversies in Religion, and other Difficulties of Holy Writ () [word count] [B12000].
