The Wilderness Years

`Thou dost not plow with an ox and with an ass together.

`Thou dost not put on a mixed cloth, wool and linen together.

`Fringes thou dost make to thee on the four skirts of thy covering with which thou dost cover thyself .

`When a man taketh a wife, and hath gone in unto her, and hated her,

and laid against her actions of words, and brought out against her an evil name, and said, This woman I have taken, and I draw near unto her, and I have not found in her tokens of virginity:

`Then hath the father of the damsel--and her mother--taken and brought out the tokens of virginity of the damsel unto the elders of the city in the gate,

and the father of the damsel hath said unto the elders, My daughter I have given to this man for a wife, and he doth hate her;

and lo, he hath laid actions of words, saying, I have not found to thy daughter tokens of virginity--and these are the tokens of the virginity of my daughter! and they have spread out the garment before the elders of the city.

`And the elders of that city have taken the man, and chastise him,

and fined him a hundred silverlings, and given to the father of the damsel, because he hath brought out an evil name on a virgin of Israel, and she is to him for a wife, he is not able to send her away all his days.

`And if this thing hath been truth--tokens of virginity have not been found for the damsel--

then they have brought out the damsel unto the opening of her father's house, and stoned her have the men of her city with stones, and she hath died, for she hath done folly in Israel, to go a-whoring in her father's house; and thou hast put away the evil thing out of thy midst.

`When a man is found lying with a woman, married to a husband, then they have died even both of them, the man who is lying with the woman, also the woman; and thou hast put away the evil thing out of Israel.

`When there is a damsel, a virgin, betrothed to a man, and a man hath found her in a city, and lain with her;

then ye have brought them both out unto the gate of that city, and stoned them with stones, and they have died: --the damsel, because that she hath not cried, being in a city; and the man, because that he hath humbled his neighbour's wife; and thou hast put away the evil thing out of thy midst.

`And if in a field the man find the damsel who is betrothed, and the man hath laid hold on her, and lain with her, then hath the man who hath lain with her died alone;

and to the damsel thou dost not do anything, the damsel hath no deadly sin; for as a man riseth against his neighbour and hath murdered him--the life, so is this thing;

for in a field he found her, she hath cried--the damsel who is betrothed--and she hath no saviour.

`When a man findeth a damsel, a virgin who is not betrothed, and hath caught her, and lain with her, and they have been found,

then hath the man who is lying with her given to the father of the damsel fifty silverlings, and to him she is for a wife; because that he hath humbled her, he is not able to send her away all his days.

`A man doth not take his father's wife, nor uncover his father's skirt.

`One wounded, bruised, or cut in the member doth not enter into the assembly of Jehovah;

a bastard doth not enter into the assembly of Jehovah; even a tenth generation of him doth not enter into the assembly of Jehovah.

`An Ammonite and a Moabite doth not enter into the assembly of Jehovah; even a tenth generation of them doth not enter into the assembly of Jehovah--to the age;

because that they have not come before you with bread and with water in the way, in your coming out from Egypt, and because he hath hired against thee Balaam son of Beor, of Pethor of Aram-Naharaim, to revile thee;