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Deuteronomy Chapter 22

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Deuteronomy

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Deuteronomy 22 presents a collection of social and civil laws given by Moses, covering obligations such as returning strayed animals, preserving distinctions in nature and dress, and protecting birds in the wild. The chapter then turns to laws governing marriage and sexual conduct, including requirements for a bride's purity, penalties for adultery and rape, and protections for women in various circumstances. These statutes reflect Israel's call to maintain holiness and justice in every area of community life.

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(1) Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them again unto thy brother.
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Exodus 23:4Ezekiel 34:4Ezekiel 34:16Matthew 10:6Matthew 15:24Matthew 18:12Matthew 18:13Luke 15:4Luke 15:5Luke 15:6James 5:19James 5:20

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Exodus 22:1I Samuel 14:34Matthew 18:12John 10:12Deuteronomy 22:4Exodus 21:28

(2) And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it unto thine own house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore it to him again.
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Matthew 7:12I Thessalonians 4:6

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Zephaniah 2:3

(3) In like manner shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do with his raiment; and with all lost thing of thy brother's, which he hath lost, and thou hast found, shalt thou do likewise: thou mayest not hide thyself.
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Exodus 22:9Deuteronomy 30:20Revelation 3:18Deuteronomy 22:4Numbers 22:23

(4) Thou shalt not see thy brother's ass or his ox fall down by the way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely help him to lift them up again.
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Exodus 23:4Exodus 23:5Matthew 5:44Luke 10:29Luke 10:30Luke 10:31Luke 10:32Luke 10:33Luke 10:34Luke 10:35Luke 10:36Luke 10:37

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Exodus 21:28Exodus 21:36Exodus 23:5Exodus 23:4Esther 6:13Jeremiah 44:25

(5) The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
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I Corinthians 11:4I Corinthians 11:5I Corinthians 11:6I Corinthians 11:7I Corinthians 11:8I Corinthians 11:9I Corinthians 11:10I Corinthians 11:11I Corinthians 11:12I Corinthians 11:13I Corinthians 11:14I Corinthians 11:15

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Leviticus 13:47II Kings 23:13

(6) If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young:
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Luke 12:6Genesis 8:17Genesis 32:11Leviticus 22:28Proverbs 12:10Hosea 10:14

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Lamentations 2:21Numbers 8:8Judges 9:54Ruth 2:9I Samuel 25:5I Samuel 25:8

(7) But thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to thee; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days.
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Deuteronomy 4:40Proverbs 22:4

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Deuteronomy 22:6Deuteronomy 30:20II Kings 4:26Deuteronomy 4:40Revelation 3:18

(8) When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence.
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Exodus 21:28Exodus 21:29Exodus 21:30Exodus 21:31Exodus 21:32Exodus 21:33Exodus 21:34Exodus 21:35Exodus 21:36Exodus 22:6Romans 14:13I Corinthians 10:32

(9) Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled.
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Leviticus 19:19Matthew 6:24Matthew 9:16Romans 11:6II Corinthians 1:12II Corinthians 11:3James 1:6James 1:7James 1:8James 3:10

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Genesis 1:11Deuteronomy 28:4Deuteronomy 28:11Deuteronomy 30:9Song of Solomon 8:11Ezekiel 47:12

(10) Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.
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II Corinthians 6:14II Corinthians 6:15II Corinthians 6:16

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Numbers 22:23Exodus 21:28Exodus 21:35Exodus 21:36

(11) Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together.
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Leviticus 19:19

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Leviticus 13:47Exodus 39:28Leviticus 16:4Leviticus 6:10Leviticus 13:52Leviticus 13:59

(12) Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself.
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Numbers 15:38Numbers 15:39Matthew 23:5

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Ezekiel 48:16Exodus 25:26Exodus 37:13Jeremiah 49:36Ezekiel 1:10Revelation 7:1

(13) If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,
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Genesis 29:21Genesis 29:23Genesis 29:31Judges 15:1Judges 15:2Ephesians 5:28Ephesians 5:29

(14) And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid:
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Deuteronomy 22:19Exodus 20:16Exodus 23:1Proverbs 18:8Proverbs 18:21I Timothy 5:14

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Deuteronomy 22:17

(15) Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate:
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Nehemiah 12:39Ezekiel 46:9Luke 12:53Ezekiel 40:23Ezekiel 46:2Deuteronomy 21:19

(16) And the damsel's father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her;
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Luke 12:53Genesis 36:2Leviticus 18:17

(17) And, lo, he hath given occasions of speech against her, saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.
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Leviticus 18:17Luke 12:53Deuteronomy 22:14Genesis 36:2Leviticus 18:10Esther 2:7

(18) And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him;
(19) And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath 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.
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Deuteronomy 22:29Deuteronomy 24:1Deuteronomy 24:2Deuteronomy 24:3Deuteronomy 24:4Matthew 19:8Matthew 19:9

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Leviticus 27:6Numbers 7:13Numbers 7:19Numbers 7:25Numbers 7:31Numbers 7:37

(20) But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel:
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Deuteronomy 22:15I John 5:20

(21) Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.
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Deuteronomy 22:22Deuteronomy 22:24Deuteronomy 13:10Deuteronomy 17:5Deuteronomy 21:21Leviticus 24:16Leviticus 24:23Numbers 15:35Numbers 15:36Genesis 34:7Leviticus 21:9Judges 20:6

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Genesis 38:11I Chronicles 29:2Deuteronomy 22:24Genesis 31:1Genesis 46:31Leviticus 18:8

(22) If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.
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Leviticus 20:10Numbers 5:22Numbers 5:23Numbers 5:24Numbers 5:25Numbers 5:26Numbers 5:27Ezekiel 23:45Ezekiel 23:46Ezekiel 23:47John 8:4John 8:5

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Romans 7:2Romans 7:3Deuteronomy 24:3II Kings 7:4II Chronicles 25:4Ezekiel 3:20

(23) If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;
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Deuteronomy 20:7Matthew 1:18Matthew 1:19

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Deuteronomy 22:28Romans 7:2Deuteronomy 22:25Ecclesiastes 8:17

(24) Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you.
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Deuteronomy 21:14Genesis 29:21Matthew 1:20Matthew 1:24Deuteronomy 22:21Deuteronomy 22:22Deuteronomy 13:5I Corinthians 5:2I Corinthians 5:13

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Nehemiah 12:39Ezekiel 46:9I Chronicles 29:2Deuteronomy 22:21Ezekiel 40:23Ezekiel 46:2

(25) But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her: then the man only that lay with her shall die:
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II Samuel 13:14

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Deuteronomy 22:28Deuteronomy 22:23Genesis 23:17Exodus 9:19Exodus 9:25Exodus 22:5

(26) But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so is this matter:
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Deuteronomy 21:22

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Genesis 34:3Mark 5:40Mark 5:41Mark 6:28

(27) For he found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her.
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I Corinthians 13:7

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Genesis 23:17Exodus 9:25Exodus 22:5Deuteronomy 22:25

(28) If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;
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Exodus 22:16Exodus 22:17

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Deuteronomy 22:23Deuteronomy 22:25Ecclesiastes 8:17Ezekiel 4:4Hebrews 6:18

(29) Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.
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Deuteronomy 22:19Deuteronomy 22:24Deuteronomy 21:14

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Exodus 30:23Joshua 7:21II Kings 1:13Ezekiel 48:17Leviticus 27:6Numbers 7:13

(30) A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's skirt.
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Deuteronomy 27:20Leviticus 18:8Leviticus 20:11I Corinthians 5:1I Corinthians 5:13Ruth 3:9Ezekiel 16:8

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Deuteronomy 27:20Genesis 31:1Genesis 38:11Genesis 46:31Leviticus 18:8Leviticus 18:12

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