Moses continued speaking to the Israelites, teaching them the laws of God and how they were to live honorably among one another.
He said, "If you see your brother's ox or sheep wandering away, do not look away and ignore it. Take it back to him. And if your brother lives far away or you do not know who owns the animal, take it home with you. Keep it safe until he comes searching for it, and then return it to him. Do the same for his donkey, his cloak, or anything else he loses. Do not pretend not to see it.
If you see your brother's donkey or ox fallen on the road, do not walk past. Help him lift it up."
Then Moses reminded them, "A woman must not wear a man's clothing, nor should a man wear a woman's garment. The Lord your God detests such things.
If you come across a bird's nest by the road, in a tree or on the ground, and the mother is sitting on her young or on the eggs, do not take the mother along with the young. Take the young only, but let the mother go, so that all may go well with you and you may live long."
He continued, "When you build a new house, make a railing around your roof so no one falls and brings guilt of blood upon your home. Do not plant two kinds of seed in your vineyard, for both the crop and the fruit will be defiled. Do not plow with an ox and a donkey yoked together. Do not wear clothes woven from both wool and linen. And make tassels on the four corners of your garment."
Moses then spoke about purity and justice between a husband and wife. "If a man marries a woman and later accuses her falsely, saying she was not a virgin, the girl's parents shall bring the proof of her purity to the elders at the town gate. Her father will speak before them, saying, 'I gave my daughter to this man, but he has lied about her. Here is the proof of her purity.' The elders shall punish the man, fine him a hundred shekels of silver, and give it to the girl's father. The man must remain married to her and never divorce her.
But if the charge is true, and no proof of her virginity can be found, the young woman shall be brought to the door of her father's house, and the men of her town shall stone her to death, for she has brought shame upon Israel by acting immorally in her father's home. Thus you must remove the evil from among you."
He continued to teach them about sin and justice. "If a man is found lying with another man's wife, both shall die. If a man meets a betrothed woman in the city and lies with her, both shall be stoned, because the woman did not cry out and the man violated her. But if the man finds her in the countryside and forces her, only he shall die, for the woman cried out but there was no one to rescue her.
If a man violates a virgin who is not betrothed and they are found, he must pay her father fifty shekels of silver and marry her. He cannot divorce her all his life.
And no man must ever marry his father's wife or dishonor his father's bed."