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.
10. Don't hitch an ox and a donkey to your plough at the same time.
11. When you weave cloth for clothing, you can use thread made of flax or wool, but not both together.
12. And when you make a coat, sew a tassel on each of the four corners.
13. Suppose a man starts hating his wife soon after they are married.
14. He might tell ugly lies about her, and say, “I married this woman, but when we slept together, I found out she wasn't a virgin.”
15. If this happens, the bride's father and mother must go to the town gate to show the town leaders the proof that the woman was a virgin.
16. Her father will say, “I let my daughter marry this man, but he started hating her
17. and accusing her of not being a virgin. But he is wrong, because here is proof that she was a virgin!” Then the bride's parents will show them the bed sheet from the woman's wedding night.
18. The town leaders will beat the man with a whip
19. because he accused his bride of not being a virgin. He will have to pay her father one hundred pieces of silver and will never be allowed to divorce her.
20. But if the man was right and there is no proof that his bride was a virgin,
21. the men of the town will take the woman to the door of her father's house and stone her to death.This woman brought evil into your community by sleeping with someone before she got married, and you must get rid of that evil by killing her.
22. People of Israel, if a man is caught having sex with someone else's wife, you must put them both to death. That way, you will get rid of the evil they have done in Israel.