Deut 24
1
When a man takes a wife, and marries her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in
his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her
a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
2
And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man`s [wife].
3
And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and give
it in her hand, and send her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, who took
her to be his wife;
4
her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after
that she is defiled; for that is abomination before YHWH: and you shall not cause
the land to sin, which YHWH your God gives you for an inheritance.
5
When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the host, neither shall he be
charged with any business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his
wife whom he has taken.
6
No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he takes [a man`s]
life to pledge.
7
If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and he deal
with him as a slave, or sell him; then that thief shall die: so shall you put away
the evil from the midst of you.
8
Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that you observe diligently, and do according
to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so you shall
observe to do.
9
Remember what YHWH your God did to Miriam, by the way as you came forth out of Egypt.
10
When you do lend your neighbor any manner of loan, you shall not go into his house
to fetch his pledge.
11
You shall stand without, and the man to whom you do lend shall bring forth the pledge
without to you.
12
And if he be a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge;
13
you shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep
in his garment, and bless you: and it shall be righteousness to you before YHWH your
God.
14
You shall not oppress a hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of your
brethren, or of your sojourners that are in your land within your gates:
15
in his day you shall give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for
he is poor, and sets his heart upon it: lest he cry against you to YHWH, and it be
sin to you.
16
The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children
be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
17
You shall not wrest the justice [due] to the sojourner, [or] to the fatherless, nor
take the widow`s raiment to pledge;
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but you shall remember that you were a bondman in Egypt, and YHWH your God redeemed
you thence: therefore I command you to do this thing.
19
When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgot a sheaf in the field, you
shall not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the sojourner, for the fatherless,
and for the widow; that YHWH your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
20
When you beat your olive-tree, you shall not go over the boughs again: it shall be
for the sojourner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
21
When you gather [the grapes of] your vineyard, you shall not glean it after you: it
shall be for the sojourner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
22
And you shall remember that you were a bondman in the land of Egypt: therefore I command
you to do this thing.