Deuteronomy 22:1-16 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

1. "If you see your brother's ox or sheep wander astray, you shall not pass by. Instead, you shall lead them back to your brother.

2. But if your brother is not near, or you do not know him, you shall lead them to your house, and they shall be with you until your brother seeks them and receives them.

3. You shall act in a similar manner with his donkey, and his clothing, and all the belongings of your brother that have been lost. If you find it, you shall not neglect it, as if it belonged to a stranger.

4. If you see that your brother's donkey or ox has fallen along the way, you shall not disregard it. Instead, you shall lift it up with him.

5. A woman shall not be clothed with manly apparel, nor shall a man make use of feminine apparel. For whoever does these things is abominable with God.

6. If, as you are walking along the way, you find a bird's nest, in a tree or on the ground, and the mother is nurturing the young or the eggs, you shall not take her with her young.

7. Instead, you shall permit her to go, retaining the young that you have caught, so that it may be well with you, and you may live for a long time.

8. When you build a new house, you shall make a wall around the roof. Otherwise, someone may slip and fall down violently, and so blood would be shed at your house, and you would be guilty.

9. You shall not sow your vineyard with another seed, lest both the seed that you have sown and what springs forth from the vineyard be sanctified together.

10. You shall not till with an ox and a donkey at the same time.

11. You shall not wear a vestment which has been woven from both wool and linen.

12. You shall make strings along the hem, at the four corners of your cloak, which covers you.

13. If a man takes a wife, and afterwards he has hatred for her,

14. and so he seeks opportunities to dismiss her, imputing a very wicked name to her by saying, 'I received this woman as a wife, and upon entering to her, I found her not to be a virgin,'

15. then her father and mother shall take her, and they shall bring with them the signs of her virginity, to the elders of the city who are at the gate.

16. And the father shall say: 'I gave my daughter to this man as a wife. And because he hates her,

Deuteronomy 22