Deuteronomy 22:8-18 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

8. When thou buildest a new house, thou shalt make a battlement to the roof round about: lest blood be shed in thy house, and thou be guilty, if any one slip, and fall down headlong.

9. Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest both the seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of the vineyard, be sanctified together.

10. Thou shalt not plough with an ox and an ass together.

11. Thou shalt not wear a garment that is woven of woollen and linen together.

12. Thou shalt make strings in the hem at the four corners of thy cloak, wherewith thou shalt be covered.

13. If a man marry a wife, and afterwards hate her,

14. And seek occasions to put her away, laying to her charge a very ill name, and say: I took this woman to wife, and going in to her, I found her not a virgin:

15. Her father and mother shall take her, and shall bring with them the tokens of her virginity to the ancients of the city that are in the gate:

16. And the father shall say: I gave my daughter unto this man to wife: and because he hateth her,

17. He layeth to her charge a very ill name, so as to say: I found not thy daughter a virgin: and behold these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the ancients of the city:

18. And the ancients of that city shall take that man, and beat him,

Deuteronomy 22