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Scriptural Text [& Editorial]
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Commentary & Explanation
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Footnotes ~ References ~ JST
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CHAPTER 22
Moses sets forth laws pertaining to: lost property, wearing of proper
clothes, caring for interests of others, marrying virgins, and penalties for
sexual immorality.
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1 THOU shalt not see thy
abrother's ox or his sheep go bastray,
and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them again unto thy
brother.
2 And if thy brother abe 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.
3 In like manner shalt thou do with his ass; and so
shalt thou do with his raiment; and with all alost 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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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
ahelp him to lift them up again.
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5 ¶ The woman shall not awear
that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's
garmenta: for all that do so
are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
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5a neither shall a man put on a women's
garment There is both clothing that is 'common' between a man and
a woman, and that which is particular to each sex. This seems to be both
designed to maintain a distinction and separation between the sexes as well
as insure that a man does not contrive to take upon himself being a women
or a women take upon herself to being a man. The differences between the
sexes is essential to the kingdom of God and God's eternal plan. Procreation
with the participation of a man and a women, each maintaining their
identities and roles in the parenting process is critical to the order of
God and to obtaining the highest degree of the Celestial Kingdom where
marriage between a man and a women and the family unit is absolutely
required. All that frustrates men being men and women being women, including
the 'cross dressing' in those articles which are meant only to be worn by
men and women appart from each other, is a direct afront and attack upon the
proper division of the sexes into their proper distinctions, male and female.
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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 adam sitting upon the young, or upon the
eggs, thou shalt not take the bdam with the young:
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 aprolong thy days.
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8 ¶ When thou buildest a new house, then thou
shalt make a abattlement for thy roof, that thou bring not
blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence.
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9 ¶ Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with
adivers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast
sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled.
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10 ¶ Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.
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11 ¶ Thou shalt not wear a garment of
adivers sorts, as of woollen and linen together.
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12 ¶ Thou shalt make thee
afringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith
thou coverest thyself.
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13 ¶ If any man take a wife, and go in unto her,
and ahate her,
14 And agive 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 bmaid:
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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16 And the damsel's father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her;
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.
18 And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him;
19 And they shall aamerce him in an
hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the
damsel, because he hath brought up an evil bname upon a
virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his
days.
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20 But if this thing be true, and the tokens
of virginity be not found for the damsel:
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 adie: 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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22 ¶ If a man be found lying with a woman
amarried to an husband, then they shall both of them
diea,
both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put
away evil from Israel.
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22a they shall both of them
dieIt is a serious matter which in covenant Israel would result in
the death of both the adultrous man and women. In today's world were the life
of the temporal mortal being is so protected by the law to make it almost
impossible to put even murders to death and remove them from society, it
seems quite harsh that the Lord would set forth a law which would end the
life of both individuals caught in adultry. Yet of the shedding of innocent
blood there is no forgiveness unto the Kingdom of God. But as is with all of
God's commands there is a hierarchy of critical matters. King David commits
both adultry and murder, yet he by the mouth of God's prophet Nathan is
spared mortal death. Yet David does suffer great sorrow for his sins the
rest of his life, making his remaining days in mortality a matter of mental
suffering of great extremes. The greater matter in David's situation was that
he was foreordained to one in the chain of ancestors to the Messiah. And at
the point of David's transgressions, he had not yet fathered the next in that
line of ancestry, Solomon. To have put David to death at that point would
have totally frustrated the design of God and the Salvation of man. So David
was spared, yet he died a thousand deaths in the suffering he subsequently
experienced. To appreciate this suffering anguish, one needs only to review
the many psalms of David which plead to God for forgiveness while obtaining
none for those grevious sins unto exaltation.
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23 ¶ If a damsel that is a virgin be
betrothed unto aan husband, and a man find her in the city,
and lie with her;
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 acried 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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25 ¶ But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the
field, and the man force her, and alie with her: then the
man only that lay with her shall die:
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, aeven so
is this matter:
27 For he found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her.
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28 ¶ If a man find a damsel that is a
avirgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and
lie with her, and they be found;
29 Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the
damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his
awife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away
all his days.
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30 ¶ A man shall not take his
afather's wife, nor bdiscover his
father's skirt.
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