Compare translations
Deuteronomy 22
Highlighted words differ from the WEB. Most differences are matters of wording, style or the age of the English, not of meaning; a few reflect different manuscripts.
- 1WEBYou shall not see your brother’s ox or his sheep go astray and hide yourself from them. You shall surely bring them again to your brother.KJVThou 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.
- 2WEBIf your brother isn’t near to you, or if you don’t know him, then you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall be with you until your brother comes looking for it, and you shall restore it to him.KJVAnd 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.
- 3WEBSo you shall do with his donkey. So you shall do with his garment. So you shall do with every lost thing of your brother’s, which he has lost and you have found. You may not hide yourself.KJVIn 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.
- 4WEBYou shall not see your brother’s donkey or his ox fallen down by the way, and hide yourself from them. You shall surely help him to lift them up again.KJVThou 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.
- 5WEBA woman shall not wear men’s clothing, neither shall a man put on women’s clothing; for whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh your God.KJVThe 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.
- 6WEBIf you come across a bird’s nest on the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the hen sitting on the young, or on the eggs, you shall not take the hen with the young.KJVIf 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:
- 7WEBYou shall surely let the hen go, but the young you may take for yourself, that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days.KJVBut 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.
- 8WEBWhen you build a new house, then you shall make a railing around your roof, so that you don’t bring blood on your house if anyone falls from there.KJVWhen 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.
- 9WEBYou shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest all the fruit be defiled, the seed which you have sown, and the increase of the vineyard.KJVThou 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.
- 10WEBYou shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.KJVThou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.
- 11WEBYou shall not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together.KJVThou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together.
- 12WEBYou shall make yourselves fringes on the four corners of your cloak with which you cover yourself.KJVThou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself.
- 13WEBIf any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, hates her,KJVIf any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,
- 14WEBaccuses her of shameful things, gives her a bad name, and says, “I took this woman, and when I came near to her, I didn’t find in her the tokens of virginity;”KJVAnd 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:
- 15WEBthen the young lady’s father and mother shall take and bring the tokens of the young lady’s virginity to the elders of the city in the gate.KJVThen 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:
- 16WEBThe young lady’s father shall tell the elders, “I gave my daughter to this man as his wife, and he hates her.KJVAnd the damsel’s father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her;
- 17WEBBehold, he has accused her of shameful things, saying, ‘I didn’t find in your daughter the tokens of virginity;’ and yet these are the tokens of my daughter’s virginity.” They shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.KJVAnd, 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.
- 18WEBThe elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him.KJVAnd the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him;
- 19WEBThey shall fine him one hundred shekels of silver, and give them to the father of the young lady, because he has given a bad name to a virgin of Israel. She shall be his wife. He may not put her away all his days.KJVAnd 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.
- 20WEBBut if this thing is true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the young lady,KJVBut if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel:
- 21WEBthen they shall bring out the young lady to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done folly in Israel, to play the prostitute in her father’s house. So you shall remove the evil from among you.KJVThen 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.
- 22WEBIf a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both die, the man who lay with the woman and the woman. So you shall remove the evil from Israel.KJVIf 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.
- 23WEBIf there is a young lady who is a virgin pledged to be married to a husband, and a man finds her in the city, and lies with her,KJVIf a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;
- 24WEBthen you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones; the lady, because she didn’t cry, being in the city; and the man, because he has humbled his neighbor’s wife. So you shall remove the evil from among you.KJVThen 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.
- 25WEBBut if the man finds the lady who is pledged to be married in the field, and the man forces her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die;KJVBut 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:
- 26WEBbut to the lady you shall do nothing. There is in the lady no sin worthy of death; for as when a man rises against his neighbor and kills him, even so is this matter;KJVBut 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:
- 27WEBfor he found her in the field, the pledged to be married lady cried, and there was no one to save her.KJVFor he found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her.
- 28WEBIf a man finds a lady who is a virgin, who is not pledged to be married, grabs her and lies with her, and they are found,KJVIf 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;
- 29WEBthen the man who lay with her shall give to the lady’s father fifty shekels of silver. She shall be his wife, because he has humbled her. He may not put her away all his days.KJVThen 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.
- 30WEBA man shall not take his father’s wife, and shall not uncover his father’s skirt.KJVA man shall not take his father’s wife, nor discover his father’s skirt.
- World English Bible (WEB), public domain. “World English Bible” is a trademark of eBible.org.
- King James Version (1769 text), public domain outside the United Kingdom, where Crown letters patent apply.