Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter in Hebrew are of the Masoretic Text tradition, which includes the Aleppo Codex and Codex Leningradensis. Some fragments containing parts of this chapter were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls, including: 4Q36 with extant verses 1–9; 4Q45 with extant verses 3–6; and 4Q33 with extant verses 12–19. There is also a translation into Koine Greek known as the Septuagint, made in the last few centuries BC. Extant ancient manuscripts of the Septuagint version include Codex Vaticanus, and Codex Alexandrinus.
Parashot
The parashah sections listed here are based on the Aleppo Codex. Deuteronomy 22 is a part of the Parashat Ki Tetzei. : open parashah; : closedparashah.
Fairness and Co-operation (22:1–4)
This part of the law distinguishes 'lost property' from 'theft', forbids 'ignoring obvious cases for mutual help', with the aim to overcome 'indifference and irresponsibility' .
Notably in and, this section of the law focuses on certain actions that are 'abominable' to Yahweh, in particular also to restrict 'human greed and power over animal life'.
The tassels or fringes worn in antiquity by Israelites and today by observant Jews and Samaritans are called Tzitzit, to be attached to the four corners of the tallit gadol, usually referred to simply as a tallit or tallis; and tallit katan. This command repeats the previously stated law in. The Talmud equates observance of tzitzit with that of all the mitzvot.
A portion of the more elaborate collection of sex laws, this part looks into the 'dishonesty and violence in the sexual relations'. deals with situations in which a woman is accused by her husband of having been a non-virginal bride. No witnesses or positive evidence of wrongdoing are required for her to be stoned to death as a consequence of this; rather, it is up to her parents to prove that she was a virgin by presenting the tokens of her virginity. The location of the stoning differs from what is specified in , , and , in that the woman is to be stoned at the door of her father's house, associating her family with her transgression. specifically forbids a son to marry any of his father's former wives.
