25 Hard Deuteronomy 22 Quiz Questions And Answers

Between the rebellious-son legislation of chapter 21 and the assembly-exclusion list of chapter 23 sits one of the most miscellaneous chapters in the Mosaic law. The Deuteronomy 22 quiz below covers fourteen regimes packed into a single chapter, from lost property to capital sexual offenses.

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Deuteronomy 22 Quiz Questions and Answers

Question 1: How does the slandered-bride law open in verse 13?

A. If a man take a wife and find her unfaithful in the night
B. If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her
C. If a woman bear no children unto her husband for many days
D. If a priest of the LORD investigate the marriage with care
E. If the elders gather at the gate to judge the marriage

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Answer 1: B. The case is opened by the husband’s hatred toward his new wife, which then escalates into a public accusation. The legal frame is the husband’s malice, not the wife’s behaviour, which is precisely why the verses that follow build a procedure for proving slander.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 22:13. “If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her.”

Question 2: When a man came upon a bird’s nest with the dam sitting upon the young or upon the eggs, what was forbidden?

A. To eat any of the eggs that lay in the nest
B. To take only one of the young from the nest
C. To break the eggs in the day of finding
D. To take the dam with the young
E. To leave the nest entirely without touching it

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Answer 2: D. The mother bird must be released; only the young or the eggs could be taken. The rule preserves the next generation by guarding the breeding pair, applying creation-care logic to a small daily situation a hunter might face.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 22:6. “thou shalt not take the dam with the young.”

Question 3: What did this chapter forbid concerning men’s and women’s apparel?

A. The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment
B. The woman shall not wear gold of the heathen, neither shall a man wear a sword in the night
C. The woman shall not wear blue thread of the priest, nor a man the embroidered robe of office
D. The woman shall not wear black raiment in the day of the feast, nor a man scarlet
E. The woman shall not wear costly apparel of the heathen woman, nor a man of the heathen man

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Answer 3: A. The prohibition is bilateral and absolute. The verse closes with the LORD’s verdict attached: “all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God,” placing the matter in the same theological category as idolatry rather than mere social custom.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 22:5. “The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment.”

Question 4: Whose wife was a man specifically forbidden to take in the closing verse of this chapter?

A. His brother’s wife
B. His neighbour’s wife
C. The wife of the priest
D. His uncle’s wife by marriage
E. His father’s wife

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Answer 4: E. The verse names the father’s wife and adds the reason: such a man “discovereth his father’s skirt.” The prohibition assumes a polygamous household and protects the father’s marriage from being violated by a son in the same family.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 22:30. “A man shall not take his father’s wife, nor discover his father’s skirt.”

Question 5: When a man was found lying with a woman married to a husband, what was the verdict?

A. The woman only was put to death
B. The woman only was banished from her husband’s house
C. They shall both of them die
D. Both were whipped publicly at the city gate
E. Both were exiled to the wilderness for a year

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Answer 5: C. Adultery in this chapter is a joint capital offence. The verse closes with the standard formula: “so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.” The penalty mirrors the seriousness of the covenant violation, treating both parties as equally guilty.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 22:22. “If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman.”

Question 6: What was the man building a new house required to make?

A. A doorpost inscription
B. A window facing the holy mountain of Israel
C. An inner court for the priests of the LORD
D. A dedication offering
E. A battlement for the roof

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Answer 6: E. A low parapet around the flat rooftop. The reason given is bloodguilt prevention: a man falling from a roof without the safeguard would bring blood upon the house. The law makes domestic safety a covenantal duty rather than a personal preference.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 22:8. “thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence.”

Question 7: When a man saw his brother’s ox or his sheep go astray, what was he commanded to do?

A. He shall in any case bring them again unto his brother
B. He shall report the matter to the elders of the city gate
C. He shall keep them three days, then return them to the field
D. He shall take them to the priest serving at the chosen place
E. He shall leave them where they were found in the open way

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Answer 7: A. Active return is required, not passive observation. The verse is direct: “thou shalt not hide thyself from them.” Indifference to a brother’s loss is itself a covenant violation in this chapter.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 22:1. “Thou shalt not see thy brother’s ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them again unto thy brother.”

Question 8: When a betrothed damsel was forced by a man in the field, what was the verdict?

A. Both the man and the damsel were stoned at the gate
B. The man paid silver to the damsel’s father and was free
C. The man only that lay with her shall die
D. The damsel was sent away from her people forever
E. The priest decided the case at the chosen place

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Answer 8: C. The man alone bears the death penalty. The chapter compares the field crime to murder, since the woman could not be heard if she cried out. The legal logic preserves her innocence by recognising the absence of any rescuer.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 22:25. “then the man only that lay with her shall die.”

Question 9: If the slander against the bride was true and tokens of her virginity were not found, where was she taken to be stoned?

A. Outside the camp of Israel
B. To the door of her father’s house
C. To a high place before the assembly
D. To the centre of the city before the assembly
E. To the wilderness beyond the borders of her city

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Answer 9: B. The execution location is deliberately the father’s doorway. The location publicly registers that the household failed to bring forth a chaste daughter. The verse adds the customary “put away evil from among you” formula.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 22:21. “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 die.”

Question 10: What two animals were forbidden to be plowed together?

A. An ox and a sheep yoked together
B. A horse and a donkey yoked together
C. A camel and an ox yoked together
D. An ox and an ass yoked together
E. A mule and a bullock yoked together

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Answer 10: D. The ox and the ass differ in size, strength, and pace; yoking them mistreats the weaker animal. The law sits among three “do not mingle” prohibitions in verses 9-11, each one targeting an unequal or improper combination.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 22:10. “Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.”

Question 11: When a brother’s ass or ox fell down by the way, what was the finder required to do?

A. He shall report it to the priest serving at the altar
B. He shall take the animal aside to a clean place
C. He shall wait until the rightful owner appeared
D. He shall surely help him to lift them up again
E. He shall offer it as a sacrifice in his brother’s name

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Answer 11: D. Active help, not passive observation. The verse repeats the earlier prohibition: “thou shalt not see… and hide thyself from them.” The chapter binds the Israelite to immediate practical assistance whenever a brother’s livestock falls.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 22:4. “Thou shalt not see thy brother’s ass or his ox fall down by the way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely help him to lift them up again.”

Question 12: A man who lay with an unbetrothed virgin owed her father how many shekels of silver?

A. Ten shekels of silver
B. Thirty shekels of silver
C. Fifty shekels of silver
D. One hundred shekels of silver
E. One hundred and fifty shekels of silver

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Answer 12: C. Fifty shekels, paid to the father, with the additional binding clause that the man must marry her and may not put her away all his days. The hundred-shekel amount belongs to the slandered-bride case in verse 19; confusing the two figures is the trap.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 22:29. “Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife.”

Question 13: What was the promised reward for letting the mother bird go from the nest?

A. That thou mayest have peace with the LORD
B. That thy seed may be fruitful in the womb
C. That the LORD may bless all thy cities
D. That thou mayest find honour with the elders
E. That it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days

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Answer 13: E. The same promise the Decalogue attaches to honouring father and mother (Exodus 20:12, Deuteronomy 5:16) is here attached to a small act of mercy toward a bird. The chapter elevates a minor agricultural decision to covenantal weight.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 22:7. “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 prolong thy days.”

Question 14: What two materials were forbidden to be worn together as one garment?

A. Wool and linen together
B. Silk and gold thread together
C. Flax and hemp together
D. Leather and wool together
E. Cotton and linen together

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Answer 14: A. Wool (animal fibre) and linen (plant fibre). The same combination was reserved for priestly garments, so its prohibition for ordinary Israelites preserved a visible distinction between sacred and common clothing.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 22:11. “Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together.”

Question 15: In the slandered-bride trial, what specific item did the father and mother bring to the elders as evidence?

A. A signed scroll witnessed at the wedding feast
B. The cloth, spread before the elders of the city
C. The testimony of two witnesses to the wedding night
D. A priestly certificate sealed at the chosen place
E. The silver of the bride-price returned in full

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Answer 15: B. A physical cloth carrying the tokens of virginity, presented in open court. The evidence is material rather than testimonial, which is why the chapter calls it “the tokens of the damsel’s virginity” with this much specificity.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 22:17. “they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.”

Question 16: A betrothed virgin found lying with a man within the city — what was the verdict for both?

A. Both stoned at the gate of the city
B. Only the man stoned outside the camp
C. Only the woman stoned at the gate of her father’s house
D. Both banished from the people of Israel
E. The priest sealed their judgment at the chosen place

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Answer 16: A. Both die together at the city gate. The reasoning is procedural: in the city she could have cried for help and been heard. Her silence is treated as consent, distinguishing the city case from the field case in verses 25-27.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 22:24. “then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die.”

Question 17: What was forbidden concerning the sowing of seed in the vineyard?

A. Sowing in the seventh year of the land
B. Sowing thy vineyard with divers seeds
C. Sowing without first offering the firstfruits
D. Sowing in the day of the sabbath of the LORD
E. Sowing barley among the rows of grapes

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Answer 17: B. Mixed seed in a vineyard, and the consequence is severe: both the new fruit and the increase of the vineyard are defiled. The law belongs to the same “do not mingle” cluster as the ox-and-ass and the wool-and-linen prohibitions.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 22:9. “Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled.”

Question 18: Where on the garment was Israel commanded to make fringes?

A. Across the breast of the vesture
B. Along both sleeves of the fringes
C. Around the collar of the garment alone
D. Upon the four quarters of the vesture
E. At the hem only of the garment

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Answer 18: D. Four corners, not breast or sleeve or collar. The law is brief here but is amplified in Numbers 15, where the fringes carry blue thread and serve as a visible covenantal reminder. Deuteronomy preserves the placement command without the full ritual elaboration.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 22:12. “Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself.”

Question 19: What financial penalty fell on a man whose slander against his bride was disproved?

A. He was exiled from the city of his birth for life
B. He received forty stripes save one at the gate
C. He was amerced in an hundred shekels of silver
D. He was bound forty days at the elders’ chamber
E. He was removed from the assembly of Israel

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Answer 19: C. One hundred shekels, paid to the father of the wife. The penalty also includes physical chastisement and the lifelong inability to divorce her. Together the three penalties make slandering a wife economically and personally ruinous to the husband.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 22:19. “And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel.”

Question 20: Why was the betrothed damsel found violated in the field judged innocent?

A. The priest interceded for her at the chosen place
B. She swore by the altar of the LORD her God
C. Her father gave testimony before the elders
D. The blood of her innocence was upon her garment
E. She cried, and there was none to save her

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Answer 20: E. The legal reasoning is geographic, not testimonial. In the open field her cry could not be heard, so the law presumes her innocent. The chapter compares her case to murder rather than to consensual sin.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 22:27. “For he found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her.”

Question 21: Beyond ox and sheep, what did this chapter command concerning any lost thing of a brother that one finds?

A. Take it to the priest’s house at the chosen place
B. Proclaim it three days at the gate of the city
C. Thou mayest not hide thyself
D. Pay restitution to the elders of the gate
E. Bring it to the nearest city of refuge

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Answer 21: C. The verse extends the principle from livestock to ass, raiment, and any lost thing. The phrase “thou mayest not hide thyself” reframes inaction as a positive offence. Indifference is the violation the law actually targets.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 22:3. “and with all lost thing of thy brother’s, which he hath lost, and thou hast found, shalt thou do likewise: thou mayest not hide thyself.”

Question 22: If the husband’s accusation against his bride was found to be true, what happened to her?

A. Her dowry was returned to her father
B. She was sent back to her father’s house in shame
C. Her name was blotted from the rolls of her tribe
D. She was made a servant of the priest
E. The men of her city shall stone her with stones

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Answer 22: E. The penalty is execution by stoning, performed by the men of her city. The verse states the reason: “she hath wrought folly in Israel.” The location is the door of her father’s house, registering household accountability for the bride’s conduct.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 22:21. “and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die.”

Question 23: What specific scenario triggered the law of the unbetrothed virgin in verse 28?

A. A man sees her bathing and approaches her at twilight
B. A man find a damsel that is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her
C. A man sends his servants to bring an unbetrothed virgin to his tent against her will
D. A man’s wife introduces her to him during a feast in his house
E. A man meets an unbetrothed virgin in the field and persuades her with gifts

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Answer 23: B. The conditions are precise: unbetrothed, laid hold on, and discovered. The “and they be found” clause distinguishes this from the secret crime in the field; the man’s identity is known, which is why the law can compel marriage and payment.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 22:28. “If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found.”

Question 24: Why specifically was the betrothed virgin in the city stoned alongside the man?

A. She went out without the consent of her parents
B. She did not call upon the LORD her God for deliverance
C. She had previously broken her wedding vow with the man
D. She cried not, being in the city
E. She had laid her hand upon the man in the gate

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Answer 24: D. The specific charge is the absence of an outcry within hearing range of help. Silence in the city is treated as consent because rescue would have been possible. The same standard cannot apply in the field, which is why the field case in verses 25-27 reaches an opposite verdict.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 22:24. “the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city.”

Question 25: If the brother who lost the ox or sheep was not nigh, or if the finder did not know him, what was the finder commanded to do?

A. Bring it home, and keep it with him until thy brother seek after it
B. Take it to the captain of the host of the army or the priest
C. Proclaim its description at the gate of the city
D. Give it to the priest until the rightful owner claimed it
E. Drive it back into the wilderness from which it strayed

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Answer 25: A. The finder becomes the temporary keeper. The animal must remain in his care, fed and protected, until the owner comes searching. The law assumes restitution as the goal and prevents the finder from claiming abandonment as a path to ownership.
KJV Reference: Deuteronomy 22:2. “And if thy brother be 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.”

The chapter that opens by forbidding a man to ignore his brother’s lost ox closes by forbidding him to take his father’s wife.