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title: "Deuteronomy 22 – Catholic Bible (CPDV) & Latin Vulgate"
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description: "Humanity towards neighbours. Neither sex may use the apparel of the other.… Deuteronomy 22 in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin Vulgate."
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# Deuteronomy 22

Deuteronomy 22 is chapter 22 of 34 in the Book of Deuteronomy. Here are all 30 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Humanity towards neighbours. Neither sex may use the apparel of the other. Cruelty to be avoided even to birds. Battlements about the roof of a house. Things of divers kinds not to be mixed. The punishment of him that slandereth his wife, as also of adultery and rape.
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> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Deuteronomy 22 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. “If you see your brother’s ox or sheep wander astray, you shall not pass by. Instead, you shall lead them back to your brother.
2. But if your brother is not near, or you do not know him, you shall lead them to your house, and they shall be with you until your brother seeks them and receives them.
3. You shall act in a similar manner with his donkey, and his clothing, and all the belongings of your brother that have been lost. If you find it, you shall not neglect it, as if it belonged to a stranger.
4. If you see that your brother’s donkey or ox has fallen along the way, you shall not disregard it. Instead, you shall lift it up with him.
5. A woman shall not be clothed with manly apparel, nor shall a man make use of feminine apparel. For whoever does these things is abominable with God.
6. If, as you are walking along the way, you find a bird’s nest, in a tree or on the ground, and the mother is nurturing the young or the eggs, you shall not take her with her young.
7. Instead, you shall permit her to go, retaining the young that you have caught, so that it may be well with you, and you may live for a long time.
8. When you build a new house, you shall make a wall around the roof. Otherwise, someone may slip and fall down violently, and so blood would be shed at your house, and you would be guilty.
9. You shall not sow your vineyard with another seed, lest both the seed that you have sown and what springs forth from the vineyard be sanctified together.
10. You shall not till with an ox and a donkey at the same time.
11. You shall not wear a vestment which has been woven from both wool and linen.
12. You shall make strings along the hem, at the four corners of your cloak, which covers you.
13. If a man takes a wife, and afterwards he has hatred for her,
14. and so he seeks opportunities to dismiss her, imputing a very wicked name to her by saying, ‘I received this woman as a wife, and upon entering to her, I found her not to be a virgin,’
15. then her father and mother shall take her, and they shall bring with them the signs of her virginity, to the elders of the city who are at the gate.
16. And the father shall say: ‘I gave my daughter to this man as a wife. And because he hates her,
17. he accuses her with a very wicked name, by saying: “I did not find your daughter to be a virgin.” But behold, these are the signs of my daughter’s virginity.’ And they shall spread the clothing before the elders of the city.
18. And the elders of that city shall apprehend that man and beat him.
19. Moreover, they shall fine him one hundred shekels of silver, which he will give to the father of the girl, because he has committed slander, with a very wicked name, against a virgin of Israel. And he shall have her as a wife, and he cannot dismiss her throughout all the days of his life.
20. But if what he has claimed is true and virginity is not found in the girl,
21. then they shall throw her down, outside the doors of her father’s house, and the men of that city shall stone her to death, and she shall die. For she has acted wickedly in Israel, in that she fornicated in her father’s house. And so shall you take away the evil from your midst.
22. If a man sleeps with the wife of another, then they shall both die, that is, the adulterer and the adulteress. And so shall you take away the evil from Israel.
23. If a man has betrothed a girl who is a virgin, and if someone finds her in the city and he lies with her,
24. then you shall lead them both out to the gate of that city, and they shall be stoned to death: the girl, because she did not cry out though she was in the city; the man, because he has humiliated the wife of his neighbor. And so shall you take away the evil from your midst.
25. But if a man discovers, in the countryside, a girl who has been betrothed, and, apprehending her, he lies with her, then he alone shall die.
26. The girl shall suffer nothing, nor is she guilty unto death. For just as a robber rises up against his brother and slays his life, so also did the girl suffer greatly.
27. She was alone in the field. She cried out, and there was no one nearby, who might deliver her.
28. If a man finds a girl who is a virgin, who does not have a betrothal, and, taking her, he lies with her, and the matter is brought to judgment,
29. then he who slept with her shall give to the father of the girl fifty shekels of silver, and he shall have her as a wife, because he has humiliated her. He cannot dismiss her, throughout all the days of his life.
30. No man shall take his father’s wife, nor remove her covering.”

## Deuteronomy 22 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Non videbis bovem fratris tui, aut ovem errantem, et præteribis: sed reduces fratri tuo,
2. etiamsi non est propinquus frater tuus, nec nosti eum: duces in domum tuam, et erunt apud te quamdiu quærat ea frater tuus, et recipiat.
3. Similiter facies de asino, et de vestimento, et de omni re fratris tui, quæ perierit: si inveneris eam, ne negligas quasi alienam.
4. Si videris asinum fratris tui aut bovem cecidisse in via, non despicies, sed sublevabis cum eo.
5. Non induetur mulier veste virili, nec vir utetur veste feminea: abominabilis enim apud Deum est qui facit hæc.
6. Si ambulans per viam, in arbore vel in terra nidum avis inveneris, et matrem pullis vel ovis desuper incubantem: non tenebis eam cum filiis,
7. sed abire patieris, captos tenens filios: ut bene sit tibi, et longo vivas tempore.
8. Cum ædificaveris domum novam, facies murum tecti per circuitum: ne effundatur sanguis in domo tua, et sis reus labente alio, et in præceps ruente.
9. Non seres vineam tuam altero semine: ne et sementis quam sevisti, et quæ nascuntur ex vinea, pariter sanctificentur.
10. Non arabis in bove simul et asino.
11. Non indueris vestimento, quod ex lana linoque contextum est.
12. Funiculos in fimbriis facies per quatuor angulos pallii tui, quo operieris.
13. Si duxerit vir uxorem, et postea odio habuerit eam,
14. quæsieritque occasiones quibus dimittat eam, objiciens ei nomen pessimum, et dixerit: Uxorem hanc accepi, et ingressus ad eam non inveni virginem:
15. tollent eam pater et mater ejus, et ferent secum signa virginitatis ejus ad seniores urbis qui in porta sunt:
16. et dicet pater: Filiam meam dedi huic uxorem: quam quia odit,
17. imponit ei nomen pessimum, ut dicat: Non inveni filiam tuam virginem: et ecce hæc sunt signa virginitatis filiæ meæ. Expandent vestimentum coram senioribus civitatis:
18. apprehendentque senes urbis illius virum, et verberabunt illum,
19. condemnantes insuper centum siclis argenti, quos dabit patri puellæ, quoniam diffamavit nomen pessimum super virginem Israël: habebitque eam uxorem, et non poterit dimittere eam omnibus diebus vitæ suæ.
20. Quod si verum est quod objicit, et non est in puella inventa virginitas,
21. ejicient eam extra fores domus patris sui, et lapidibus obruent viri civitatis illius, et morietur: quoniam fecit nefas in Israël, ut fornicaretur in domo patris sui: et auferes malum de medio tui.
22. Si dormierit vir cum uxore alterius, uterque morietur, id est, adulter et adultera: et auferes malum de Israël.
23. Si puellam virginem desponderit vir, et invenerit eam aliquis in civitate, et concubuerit cum ea,
24. educes utrumque ad portam civitatis illius, et lapidibus obruentur: puella, quia non clamavit, cum esset in civitate: vir, quia humiliavit uxorem proximi sui: et auferes malum de medio tui.
25. Sin autem in agro repererit vir puellam, quæ desponsata est, et apprehendens concubuerit cum ea, ipse morietur solus:
26. puella nihil patietur, nec est rea mortis: quoniam sicut latro consurgit contra fratrem suum, et occidit animam ejus, ita et puella perpessa est.
27. Sola erat in agro: clamavit, et nullus affuit qui liberaret eam.
28. Si invenerit vir puellam virginem, quæ non habet sponsum, et apprehendens concubuerit cum illa, et res ad judicium venerit:
29. dabit qui dormivit cum ea, patri puellæ quinquaginta siclos argenti, et habebit eam uxorem, quia humiliavit illam: non poterit dimittere eam cunctis diebus vitæ suæ.
30. Non accipiet homo uxorem patris sui, nec revelabit operimentum ejus.

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 6: This was to shew them to exercise a certain mercy even to irrational creatures; and by that means to train them up to a horror of cruelty; and to the exercise of humanity and mutual charity one to another.
- Verse 8: This precaution was necessary, because all their houses had flat tops, and it was usual to walk and to converse together upon them.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).