Deuteronomy 22 Cross References - ACV

¹ Thou shall not see thy brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them. Thou shall surely bring them again to thy brother. ² And if thy brother be not near to thee, or if thou do not know him, then thou shall bring it home to thy house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother seeks after it, and thou shall restore it to him. ³ And so shall thou do with his donkey, and so shall thou do with his garment, and so shall thou do with every lost thing of thy brother's, which he has lost, and thou have found. Thou may not hide thyself. ⁴ Thou shall not see thy brother's donkey or his ox fallen down by the way, and hide thyself from them. Thou shall surely help him to lift them up again. ⁵ A woman shall not wear that which pertains to a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment, for whoever does these things is an abomination to LORD thy God. ⁶ If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young or upon the eggs, thou shall not take the dam with the young. ⁷ Thou shall surely let the dam go, but the young thou may take to thyself, that it may be well with thee, and that thou may prolong thy days. ⁸ When thou build a new house, then thou shall make a guard rail for thy roof, that thou not bring blood upon thy house, if any man falls from there. ⁹ Thou shall not sow thy vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the whole fruit be forfeited: the seed which thou have sown, and the increase of the vineyard. ¹⁰ Thou shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together. ¹¹ Thou shall not wear a mingled stuff, wool and linen together. ¹² Thou shall make for thee hems upon the four borders of thy clothing, with which thou cover thyself. ¹³ If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, and dislikes her, ¹⁴ and charges her with shameful things, and brings up an evil name upon her, and says, I took this woman, and when I came near to her, I did not find in her the tokens of virginity, ¹⁵ then the father of the damsel, and her mother, shall take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity to the elders of the city in the gate. ¹⁶ And the damsel's father shall say to the elders, I gave my daughter to this man to wife, and he dislikes her. ¹⁷ And, lo, he has charged her with shameful things, saying, I did not find in thy daughter the tokens of virginity, and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the garment before the elders of the city. ¹⁸ And the elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him, ¹⁹ and they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver, and give them to the father of the damsel, because he has brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel, and she shall be his wife. He may not put her away all his days. ²⁰ But if this thing be true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the damsel, ²¹ then they shall bring the damsel out to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has wrought folly in Israel, to play the harlot in her father's house. So shall thou put away the evil from the midst of thee. ²² If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman. So shall thou put away the evil from Israel. ²³ If there be a damsel who is a virgin betrothed to a husband, and a man finds her in the city, and lies with her, ²⁴ then ye shall bring them both out to the gate of that city. And ye shall stone them to death with stones, the damsel, because she did not cry out, being in the city, and the man, because he has humbled his neighbor's wife. So thou shall put away the evil from the midst of thee. ²⁵ But if the man finds the damsel who is betrothed in the field, and the man forces her, and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die, ²⁶ but to the damsel thou shall do nothing. There is in the damsel no sin worthy of death. For as when a man rises against his neighbor, and kills him, even so is this matter, ²⁷ for he found her in the field, the betrothed damsel cried out, and there was none to save her. ²⁸ If a man finds a damsel who is a virgin, who is not betrothed, and lays hold on her, and lies with her, and they be found, ²⁹ then the man who lay with her shall give to the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has humbled her. He may not put her away all his days. ³⁰ A man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover his father's skirt.

⁴ If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his donkey going astray, thou shall surely bring it back to him again. ⁵ If thou see the donkey of him who hates thee lying under his burden, thou shall refrain leaving him. Thou shall surely release it with him.

⁴ And if the people at the land do at all hide their eyes from that man, when he gives of his seed to Molech, and do not put him to death,

³ And so shall thou do with his donkey, and so shall thou do with his garment, and so shall thou do with every lost thing of thy brother's, which he has lost, and thou have found. Thou may not hide thyself. ⁴ Thou shall not see thy brother's donkey or his ox fallen down by the way, and hide thyself from them. Thou shall surely help him to lift them up again.

¹¹ Deliver those who are carried away to death, and hold thou back those who are ready to be slain.

²⁷ He who gives to the poor shall not lack, but he who hides his eyes shall have many a curse.

¹⁷ And I will wait for LORD, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will be a man who has trusted in him.

⁷ Is it not to deal thy bread to a hungry man, and that thou bring the poor who are cast out to thy house, when thou see a naked man, that thou cover him, and that thou not hide thyself from thine own flesh?

⁴ Ye have not strengthened the diseased, nor have ye healed that which was sick, nor have ye bound up that which was broken, nor have ye brought back that which was driven away, nor have ye sought that which was lost, but ye have ruled over them with force and with rigor.

¹⁶ I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick, but I will destroy the fat and the strong. I will feed them in justice.

⁶ but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

²⁴ But having answered, he said, I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

¹² What does it seem to you? If it happens a hundred sheep are with some man, and one of them went astray, after going (having left the ninety-nine on the mountains), does he not seek the one going astray? ¹³ And if he happens to find it, truly I say to you, that he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that have not gone astray.

³¹ And by coincidence a certain priest was going down on that road, and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. ³² And likewise also a Levite who happened upon the place, having come, and having looked, passed by on the other side.

⁴ What man of you, having a hundred sheep, and having lost one of them, does not leave behind the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go for that which was lost until he finds it? ⁵ And when he finds it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. ⁶ And when he comes to the house, he calls together his men friends and his men neighbors, saying to them, Rejoice with me, because I have found my sheep that was lost.

¹⁹ Brothers, if any man among you may be led astray from the truth, and some man converts him, ²⁰ let him know that he who converts a sinful man from his wandering way, will save a soul from death, and will hide a multitude of sins.

²⁵ For ye were like sheep going astray, but now were returned to the Shepherd and Guardian of your souls.

¹² All things therefore, as many as ye may want that men should do to you, so also do ye to them, for this is the law and the prophets.

⁶ not to transgress and to cheat his brother in the affair, because the Lord is vengeful about all these things, as also we forewarned you and solemnly testified.

⁴⁴ But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

²⁹ But he, wanting to justify himself, said to Jesus, And who is my neighbor? ³⁰ And having replied, Jesus said, A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho. And he encountered bandits, who also, having stripped him and having beat him, departed having left him being half dead. ³¹ And by coincidence a certain priest was going down on that road, and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. ³² And likewise also a Levite who happened upon the place, having come, and having looked, passed by on the other side. ³³ But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to him, and when he saw him, felt compassion. ³⁴ And having come, he wrapped up his wounds, pouring on olive oil and wine. And having set him on his own beast, he brought him to an inn, and took care of him. ³⁵ And on the morrow when departing, after taking out two denarii, he gave them to the innkeeper, and said to him, Take care of him, and whatever thou might spend more, I will repay thee at my return. ³⁶ Which therefore, of these three, appears to thee to have become neighbor to the man who fell among the bandits? ³⁷ And he said, He who did mercy with him. Therefore Jesus said to him, Go, and do thou likewise.

¹ Now we the strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the frail, and not to please ourselves.

¹⁵ And I most gladly will spend, and will be spent for your souls. Even though more earnestly loving you, the worse I am loved.

¹ And brothers, if a man is overtaken in some transgression, ye the spiritual, restore such in a spirit of meekness, looking to thyself lest thou also be tempted. ² Bear the burdens of each other, and so fulfill the law of the Christ.

¹⁴ And we encourage you, brothers, admonish the unruly, strengthen the weak-spirited, help the infirmed, be patient toward all.

¹² Therefore lift up the drooping hands, and the feeble knees, ¹³ and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be turned away, but may be healed instead.

¹² For whoever does these things is an abomination to LORD. And because of these abominations LORD thy God drives them out from before thee.

⁴ Every man praying or prophesying having something upon his head dishonors his head. ⁵ But every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered dishonors her head, for it is one and the same thing as the woman who has been shaven. ⁶ For if a woman is not covered, let her also shear herself. But if it is an ugly thing for a woman to shear herself or be shaven, she should be covered. ⁷ For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, being an image and glory of God, but woman is a glory of man. ⁸ For man is not from woman, but woman from man. ⁹ For also man was not created for the woman, but woman for the man. ¹⁰ Because of this the woman ought to have authority over her head, because of the agents. ¹¹ Nevertheless, neither is man independent of woman, nor woman independent of man, in the Lord. ¹² For just as the woman is from the man, so also the man is through the woman. But all things are from God. ¹³ Judge ye among yourselves, is it proper for a woman to pray to God uncovered? ¹⁴ Or does not nature itself teach you that if a man actually wears long hair it is a disgrace to him? ¹⁵ But if a woman wears long hair, it is a glory to her, because her hair has been given for a cloak.

¹⁷ Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee of all flesh, both birds and cattle, and every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth, that they may breed abundantly on the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.

¹¹ Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau. For I fear him, lest he comes and smites me, the mother with the sons.

²⁸ And whether it be cow or ewe, ye shall not kill it and its young both in one day.

¹⁰ A righteous man regards the life of his beast, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

¹⁴ Therefore a tumult shall arise among thy people, and all thy fortresses shall be destroyed, as Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel in the day of battle; the mother was dashed in pieces with her sons.

⁶ Are not five sparrows sold for two copper coins? And not one of them is forgotten in the sight of God.

⁴⁰ And thou shall keep his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy sons after thee, and that thou may prolong thy days in the land, which LORD thy God gives thee, forever.

⁴ The reward of humility and the fear of LORD is riches and honor and life.

²⁸ And if an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox shall surely be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten, but the owner of the ox shall be acquitted. ²⁹ But if the ox was accustomed to gore in time past, and it has been testified to its owner, and he has not kept it in, but it has killed a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned, and its owner shall also be put to death. ³⁰ If a ransom is laid on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is laid upon him. ³¹ Whether it has gored a son, or has gored a daughter, according to this judgment it shall be done to him. ³² If the ox gores a man-servant or a maid-servant, there shall be given to their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned. ³³ And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit and not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls in it, ³⁴ the owner of the pit shall make it good; he shall give money to the owner of it, and the dead beast shall be his. ³⁵ And if one man's ox hurts another's, so that it dies, then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the price of it, and the dead they shall also divide. ³⁶ Or if it be known that the ox was accustomed to gore in time past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall surely pay ox for ox, and the dead beast shall be his own.

⁶ If fire breaks out, and catches in thorns, so that the shocks of grain, or the standing grain, or the field are consumed, he who kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.

² And it came to pass at evening, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to look upon.

¹ The burden of the valley of vision. What troubles thee now, that thou have wholly gone up to the housetops?

¹³ And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled, shall be as the place of Topheth, even all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense to all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings to other gods.

¹⁸ When I say to a wicked man, Thou shall surely die, and thou give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked man from his wicked way, to save his life, the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at thy hand.

²⁰ Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die. Because thou have not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered, but I will require his blood at thy hand.

² Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him, Thou were compared to a young lion of the nations. Yet thou are as a monster in the seas, and thou broke forth with thy rivers, and troubled the waters with thy feet, and fouled their rivers. ³ Thus says the lord LORD: I will spread out my net upon thee with a company of many peoples, and they shall bring thee up in my net. ⁴ And I will leave thee upon the land. I will cast thee forth upon the open field, and will cause all the birds of the heavens to settle upon thee, and I will satisfy the beasts of the whole earth with thee. ⁵ And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height. ⁶ I will also water the land, in which thou swim, with thy blood, even to the mountains. And the watercourses shall be full of thee. ⁷ And when I shall extinguish thee, I will cover the heavens, and make the stars of it dark. I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its light. ⁸ All the bright lights of heaven I will make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, says the lord LORD. ⁹ I will also vex the hearts of many peoples when I shall bring thy destruction among the nations, into the countries which thou have not known.

²⁷ What I tell you in the darkness, speak ye in the light, and what ye hear in the ear, proclaim upon the housetops.

⁶ But whoever may cause one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it is advantageous for him that a donkey-powered millstone were hanged on his neck, and he were drowned in the depth of the sea. ⁷ Woe to the world because of stumbling-blocks. For it is necessary that the stumbling-blocks come, yet woe to that man through whom the stumbling-block comes.

⁴ And not being able to come near to him because of the crowd, they uncovered the roof where he was. And when they had broken through, they let down the bed on which the paralyzed man lay.

⁹ Now on the morrow, while those men were traveling and approaching the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray, about the sixth hour.

²⁶ Therefore I solemnly declare to you this day, that I am clean from the blood of all men. ²⁷ For I did not withdraw from declaring to you the whole plan of God.

¹³ Let us not therefore criticize each other any more, but judge ye this instead, not to place a stumbling block to the brother, or a snare.

³² Become ye inoffensive both to Jews and to Greeks, and to the church of God,

¹⁰ for you to examine the things that are significant. So that ye may be tested by sunlight and not stumbling toward the day of Christ,

²² Abstain from all appearance of evil.

¹⁹ Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shall not let thy cattle engender with a diverse kind. Thou shall not sow thy field with two kinds of seed, neither shall there come upon thee a garment of two kinds of stuff mingled together.

²⁴ No man can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other, or he will hold to one, and disparage the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

¹⁶ And no man puts a patch of new cloth upon an old garment, for the patch of it pulls from the garment, and a tear becomes worse.

⁶ And if it is by grace, it is no longer from works, otherwise grace becomes no longer grace. But if it is from works it is no longer grace, otherwise work is no longer work.

¹² For our pride is this (the testimony from our conscience), that we behave in the world in the simplicity and purity of God, not by fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, and especially toward you.

³ But I fear lest somehow, as the serpent enticed Eve by his craftiness, so your thoughts might be corrupted from the simplicity in the Christ.

⁶ But let him ask in faith, doubting nothing, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven by wind and tossed about. ⁷ For that man should not think that he will receive anything from the Lord, ⁸ a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

¹⁰ Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and curse. My brothers, these things ought not to happen this way.

¹⁴ Do not become unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what partnership has righteousness and lawlessness? And what fellowship has light with darkness? ¹⁵ And what agreement has Christ with Belial? Or what share have believers with non-believers? ¹⁶ And what mutual agreement has a temple of God with idols? For ye are a temple of the living God, just as God said, I will dwell in them, and will walk among them. And I will be their God, and they will be a people to me.

³⁷ And LORD spoke to Moses, saying, ³⁸ Speak to the sons of Israel, and bid them that they make for them hems in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the hem of each border a cord of blue. ³⁹ And it shall be to you for a hem, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of LORD, and do them, and that ye not follow after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to play the harlot, ⁴⁰ that ye may remember and do all my commandments, and be holy to your God. ⁴¹ I am LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. I am LORD your God.

⁵ But all their works they do in order to be seen by men. And they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the hems of their garments.

²¹ And Jacob said to Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her.

²³ And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him. And he went in to her.

³¹ And LORD saw that Leah was regarded inferior, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

¹ When a man takes a wife, and marries her, then it shall be, if she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

¹ But it came to pass after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid. And he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber, but her father would not allow him to go in. ² And her father said, I truly thought that thou had utterly hated her, therefore I gave her to thy companion. Is not her younger sister fairer than she? Take her, I pray thee, instead of her.

²⁸ So ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself. ²⁹ For no man ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as also Christ the church,

¹⁶ Thou shall not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

¹ Thou shall not take up a false report. Do not put thy hand with the wicked man to be an unrighteous witness.

¹⁹ and they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver, and give them to the father of the damsel, because he has brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel, and she shall be his wife. He may not put her away all his days.

⁸ The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, and they go down into the innermost parts.

²¹ Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it shall eat the fruit of it.

¹⁴ I desire therefore the younger women to marry, to bear children, to manage house, to give not one occasion to him who opposes on account of slander.

²¹ Moreover thou shall provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating unjust gain, and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens,

²⁹ then the man who lay with her shall give to the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has humbled her. He may not put her away all his days.

¹ When a man takes a wife, and marries her, then it shall be, if she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. ² And when she has departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's. ³ And if the latter husband dislikes her, and writes her a bill of divorcement, and gives it in her hand, and sends her out of his house, or if the latter husband dies, who took her to be his wife, ⁴ her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife after she is defiled. For that is abomination before LORD, and thou shall not cause the land to sin, which LORD thy God gives thee for an inheritance.

⁸ He says to them, For your hard heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it did not happen this way. ⁹ And I say to you, that whoever may divorce his wife, not for fornication, and will marry another, commits adultery. And he who married her who has been divorced commits adultery.

⁷ And the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. And the men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter, which thing ought not to be done.

⁹ And the daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by playing the harlot, she profanes her father. She shall be burnt with fire.

¹⁶ And he who blasphemes the name of LORD, he shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall certainly stone him. As well the sojourner, as the home-born, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.

²³ And Moses spoke to the sons of Israel, and they brought forth him who had cursed out of the camp, and stoned him with stones. And the sons of Israel did as LORD commanded Moses.

³⁵ And LORD said to Moses, The man shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp. ³⁶ And all the congregation brought him outside the camp, and stoned him to death with stones, as LORD commanded Moses.

⁵ And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death, because he has spoken rebellion against LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of bondage, to draw thee aside out of the way which LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shall thou put away the evil from the midst of thee.

¹⁰ And thou shall stone him to death with stones, because he has sought to draw thee away from LORD thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

⁵ then thou shall bring forth that man or that woman, who has done this evil thing, to thy gates, even the man or the woman, and thou shall stone them to death with stones.

⁷ The hand of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So thou shall put away the evil from the midst of thee.

¹⁹ then ye shall do to him, as he had thought to do to his brother. So shall thou put away the evil from the midst of thee.

²¹ And all the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones. So thou shall put away the evil from the midst of thee, and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

²² If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman. So shall thou put away the evil from Israel.

²⁴ then ye shall bring them both out to the gate of that city. And ye shall stone them to death with stones, the damsel, because she did not cry out, being in the city, and the man, because he has humbled his neighbor's wife. So thou shall put away the evil from the midst of thee.

¹⁷ There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel. ¹⁸ Thou shall not bring the hire of a harlot, or the wages of a dog, into the house of LORD thy God for any vow, for even both these are an abomination to LORD thy God.

⁶ And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel, for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.

¹⁰ and we will take ten men of a hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch provision for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel.

¹² And she answered him, No, my brother, do not force me, for no such thing ought to be done in Israel. Do not do thou this folly. ¹³ And I, where shall I carry my shame? And as for thee, thou will be as one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore, I pray thee, speak to the king, for he will not withhold me from thee.

¹⁰ And the man who commits adultery with another man's wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

²² And this water that causes the curse shall go into thy bowels, and make thy body to swell, and thy thigh to fall away. And the woman shall say, Truly, Truly. ²³ And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out into the water of bitterness. ²⁴ And he shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that causes the curse. And the water that causes the curse shall enter into her bitter. ²⁵ And the priest shall take the meal offering of jealousy out of the woman's hand, and shall wave the meal offering before LORD, and bring it to the altar. ²⁶ And the priest shall take a handful of the meal offering, as the memorial of it, and burn it upon the altar, and afterward shall make the woman drink the water. ²⁷ And when he has made her drink the water, then it shall come to pass, if she is defiled, and has committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that causes the curse shall enter into her bitter, and her body shall swell, and her thigh shall fall away. And the woman shall be a curse among her people.

³⁸ And I will judge thee, as women who break wedlock and shed blood are judged. And I will bring upon thee the blood of wrath and jealousy.

⁴⁵ And righteous men, they shall judge them with the judgment of adulteresses, and with the judgment of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands. ⁴⁶ For thus says the lord LORD: I will bring up a company against them, and will give them to be tossed to and fro and robbed. ⁴⁷ And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords. They shall kill their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.

⁴ tempting, they say to him, Teacher, we found this woman committing adultery, in the act. ⁵ Now in the law, Moses commanded us such women are to be stoned. What therefore do thou say about her?

⁴ Marriage is precious in every way, and the undefiled bed, but God will judge fornicators and adulterers.

⁷ And what man is there who has betrothed a wife, and has not taken her? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.

¹⁸ Now the birth of Jesus Christ was this way. For his mother Mary, who was betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found having in her womb from the Holy Spirit. ¹⁹ But Joseph her husband, being a righteous man, and not wanting to expose her to public disgrace, intended to dismiss her privately.

¹⁴ And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shall let her go where she will, but thou shall not sell her at all for money. Thou shall not deal with her harshly, because thou have humbled her.

²¹ then they shall bring the damsel out to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has wrought folly in Israel, to play the harlot in her father's house. So shall thou put away the evil from the midst of thee. ²² If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman. So shall thou put away the evil from Israel.

²⁰ But while he considered these things, behold, an agent of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take Mary to be thy wife, for that which was begotten in her is from the Holy Spirit.

²⁴ And Joseph, being roused from his sleep, did as the agent of the Lord ordered him. And he took his wife,

² And ye are puffed up and did not rather mourn, so that he who committed this deed might be taken away from the midst of you.

¹³ But God judges those outside. And ye yourselves shall drive out the evil man from you.

¹⁴ However he would not hearken to her voice, but being stronger than she, he forced her, and lay with her.

²² And if a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree,

⁷ covers all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

¹⁶ And if a man entices a virgin who is not betrothed, and lies with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife. ¹⁷ If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

⁸ the nakedness of thy father's wife. It is thy father's nakedness.

¹¹ And the man who lies with his father's wife has uncovered his father's nakedness. Both of them shall surely be put to death, their blood shall be upon them.

²⁰ Cursed be he who lies with his father's wife, because he has uncovered his father's skirt. And all the people shall say, Truly.

⁹ And he said, Who are thou? And she answered, I am Ruth thy handmaid. Spread therefore thy skirt over thy handmaid, for thou are a near kinsman.

⁸ Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love. And I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness. Yea, I swore to thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, says the lord LORD, and thou became mine.

¹ Fornication is actually heard among you, and such fornication that is not even named among the Gentiles, for some man to have his father's wife.