De 24:1 When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass
that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in
her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and
send her out of his house.
De 24:2 And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another
man's wife.
De 24:3 And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement,
and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter
husband die, which took her to be his wife;
De 24:4 Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be
his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the Lord:
and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for
an inheritance.
De 24:5 When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither
shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year,
and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.
De 24:6 No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he
taketh a man's life to pledge.
De 24:7 If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of
Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall
die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you.
De 24:8 Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou observe diligently, and do
according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded
them, so ye shall observe to do.
De 24:9 Remember what the Lord thy God did unto Miriam by the way, after that ye
were come forth out of Egypt.
De 24:10 When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his
house to fetch his pledge.
De 24:11 Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring
out the pledge abroad unto thee.
De 24:12 And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:
De 24:13 In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth
down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be
righteousness unto thee before the Lord thy God.
De 24:14 Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether
he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy
gates:
De 24:15 At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down
upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee
unto the Lord, and it be sin unto thee.
De 24:16 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.
De 24:17 Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the
fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:
De 24:18 But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and the Lord
thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this thing.
De 24:19 When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a
sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the
stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the Lord thy God may bless
thee in all the work of thine hands.
De 24:20 When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs
again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
De 24:21 When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it
afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
De 24:22 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt:
therefore I command thee to do this thing.