Deuteronomy 22:23-24-30 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

3. That's what you should do if you find anything that belongs to someone else. Do whatever you can to help, whether you find a cow or sheep or donkey or some clothing.

4. Oxen and donkeys that carry heavy loads can stumble and fall, and be unable to get up by themselves. So as you walk along the road, help anyone who is trying to get an ox or donkey back on its feet.

5. Women must not pretend to be men, and men must not pretend to be women. The Lord your God is disgusted with people who do that.

8. If you build a house, make sure to put a low wall around the edge of the flat roof. Then if someone falls off the roof and is killed, it won't be your fault.

9. If you plant a vineyard, don't plant any other fruit tree or crop in it. If you do plant something else there, you must bring to the place of worship everything you harvest from the vineyard.

23-24. If a man is caught in town having sex with an engaged woman who isn't screaming for help, they both must be put to death. The man is guilty of having sex with a married woman. And the woman is guilty because she didn't call for help, even though she was inside a town and people were nearby. Take them both to the town gate and stone them to death. You must get rid of the evil they brought into your community.

25. If an engaged woman is raped out in the country, only the man will be put to death.

26. Do not punish the woman at all; she has done nothing wrong, and certainly nothing deserving death. This crime is like murder,

27. because the woman was alone out in the country when the man attacked her. She screamed, but there was no one to help her.

28. Suppose a woman isn't engaged to be married, and a man talks her into sleeping with him. If they are caught,

29. they will be forced to get married. He must give her father fifty pieces of silver as a bride price and can never divorce her.

30. A man must not marry a woman who was married to his father. This would be a disgrace to his father.

Deuteronomy 22