1 GLT You shall not see the ox of your brother or his sheep be scattered and hide yourself from them; you shall surely return them to your brother. BSB BSB: If you see your brother’s ox or sheep straying, you must not ignore it; be sure to return it to your brother.
2 GLT And if your brother{ is} not near to you, or you do not know him, then gather it to the middle of your house, and it must be with you until your brother seeks it, and you shall return it to him. BSB BSB: If your brother does not live near you, or if you do not know who he is, you are to take the animal home to remain with you until your brother comes seeking it; then you can return it to him.
3 GLT And thus you shall do for his donkey; and thus you shall do for his clothing; and thus you shall do for every lost thing of your brother, which is lost from him and you have found it; you shall not hide yourself. BSB BSB: And you shall do the same for his donkey, his cloak, or anything your brother has lost and you have found. You must not ignore it.
4 GLT You shall not see the donkey of your brother or his ox fallen down in the road and hide yourself from them; you shall surely lift it up. BSB BSB: If you see your brother’s donkey or ox fallen on the road, you must not ignore it; you must help him lift it up.
5 GLT The garments of a man shall not be on a woman, and neither shall a man wear the clothing of a woman; for all who do these{ are} an abomination to Yahweh your God. BSB BSB: A woman must not wear men’s clothing, and a man must not wear women’s clothing, for whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD your God.
6 GLT If the nest of a bird is encountered before your face on the road, in any tree or on the ground,{ with} young ones or eggs, and the mother lying down on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the children. BSB BSB: If you come across a bird’s nest with chicks or eggs, either in a tree or on the ground along the road, and the mother is sitting on the chicks or eggs, you must not take the mother along with the young.
7 GLT You shall surely send out the mother, but the children you may take for yourself, so that it may go well with you, and you may prolong{ your} days. BSB BSB: You may take the young, but be sure to let the mother go, so that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days.
8 GLT When you build a new house, then you shall make a railing for your roof, and you will not bring blood on your house if one who falls should fall from it. BSB BSB: If you build a new house, you are to construct a railing around your roof, so that you do not bring bloodguilt on your house if someone falls from it.
9 GLT You shall not plant your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest all the produce of the seed that you have sown and the yield of the vineyard is made holy. BSB BSB: Do not plant your vineyard with two types of seed; if you do, the entire harvest will be defiled—both the crop you plant and the fruit of your vineyard.
10 GLT You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together. BSB BSB: Do not plow with an ox and a donkey yoked together.
11 GLT You shall not wear mixed material— wool and linen together. BSB BSB: Do not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together.
12 GLT You shall make tassels for yourself on the four corners of your garment with which you cover{ yourself}. BSB BSB: You are to make tassels on the four corners of the cloak you wear.
13 GLT If a man takes a wife, and he goes in to her and hates her BSB BSB: Suppose a man marries a woman, has relations with her, and comes to hate her,
14 GLT and accuses her of shameful things and brings against her a bad name and says,‘I took this woman, and I came near to her, and I did not find her virginity,’ BSB BSB: and he then accuses her of shameful conduct and gives her a bad name, saying, “I married this woman and had relations with her, but I discovered she was not a virgin.”
15 GLT then the father of the girl and the mother shall take and bring the virginity of the girl to the elders{ at} the city gate. BSB BSB: Then the young woman’s father and mother shall bring the proof of her virginity to the city elders at the gate
16 GLT And the father of the girl shall say to the elders,‘I gave my daughter to this man as a wife, and he hates her. BSB BSB: and say to the elders, “I gave my daughter in marriage to this man, but he has come to hate her.
17 GLT And behold, he has set forth shameful things, saying,“I did not find virginity in your daughter.” But these{ are} the virginity of my daughter.’ And they shall spread the garment out before the faces of the elders of the city. BSB BSB: And now he has accused her of shameful conduct, saying, ‘I discovered that your daughter was not a virgin.’ But here is the proof of her virginity.” And they shall spread out the cloth before the city elders.
18 GLT And the elders of that city shall take the man and rebuke him; BSB BSB: Then the elders of that city shall take the man and punish him.
19 GLT and they shall fine him 100 silvers, and give them to the father of the girl, because he has brought a bad name upon a virgin of Israel. And she shall be his wife; he shall not send her away all his days. BSB BSB: They are also to fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the young woman’s father, because this man has given a virgin of Israel a bad name. And she shall remain his wife; he must not divorce her as long as he lives.
20 GLT But if this thing is true, virginity was not found in the girl, BSB BSB: If, however, this accusation is true, and no proof of the young woman’s virginity can be found,
21 GLT then they shall bring out the girl to the door of the house of her father, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones, and she shall die, because she has done a disgraceful thing in Israel, to commit fornication{ in} the house of her father; and you shall remove the evil from among you. BSB BSB: she shall be brought to the door of her father’s house, and there the men of her city will stone her to death. For she has committed an outrage in Israel by being promiscuous in her father’s house. So you must purge the evil from among you.
22 GLT If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall die, even the two of them, the man lying with the woman and the woman; and you shall remove the evil from Israel. BSB BSB: If a man is found lying with another man’s wife, both the man who slept with her and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.
23 GLT If{ there} is a virgin girl, engaged to a man, and{ another} man finds her in the city and lies with her, BSB BSB: If there is a virgin pledged in marriage to a man, and another man encounters her in the city and sleeps with her,
24 GLT then you shall take both of them to the gate of that city, and stone them with stones, and they shall die— the girl, on account of the matter that she did not cry out in the city, and the man, on account of the matter that he humiliated the wife of his neighbor; and you shall remove the evil from among you. BSB BSB: you must take both of them out to the gate of that city and stone them to death—the young woman because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he has violated his neighbor’s wife. So you must purge the evil from among you.
25 GLT And if the man finds the engaged girl in the field, and the man seizes her and lies with her, then only the man who lies with her shall die. BSB BSB: But if the man encounters a betrothed woman in the open country, and he overpowers her and lies with her, only the man who has done this must die.
26 GLT But to the girl you shall not do a thing; there is no sin of death in the girl. For as a man rises up against his neighbor and murders him, the life, thus{ is} this matter. BSB BSB: Do nothing to the young woman, because she has committed no sin worthy of death. This case is just like one in which a man attacks his neighbor and murders him.
27 GLT For he found her in the field; the engaged girl cried out,{ but there} was no one to save her. BSB BSB: When he found her in the field, the betrothed woman cried out, but there was no one to save her.
28 GLT If a man finds a virgin girl that is not engaged, and he seizes her and lies with her, and they are discovered, BSB BSB: If a man encounters a virgin who is not pledged in marriage, and he seizes her and lies with her, and they are discovered,
29 GLT then the man who lay with her shall give 50 silvers to the father of the girl, and she shall be his wife, because he has violated her. He may not send her away all his days. BSB BSB: then the man who lay with her must pay the young woman’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she must become his wife because he has violated her. He must not divorce her as long as he lives.
30 GLT A man shall not take the wife of his father; and he shall not uncover the hem of his father. BSB BSB: A man is not to marry his father’s wife, so that he will not dishonor his father’s marriage bed.
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