| 1 | When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a bill of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house, |
| 2 | And when she departs out of his house she goes and marries another man, |
| 3 | And if the latter husband dislikes her and writes her a bill of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter husband dies, who took her as his wife, |
| 4 | Then her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife after she is defiled. For that is an abomination before the Lord; and you shall not bring guilt upon the land which the Lord your God gives you as an inheritance. |
| 5 | When a man is newly married, he shall not go out with the army or 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 a mill or an upper millstone in pledge, for he would be taking a life in pledge. |
| 7 | If a man is found kidnapping any of his brethren of the Israelites and treats him as a slave
or
a servant or sells him, then that thief shall die. So you shall put evil from among you. |
| 8 | Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that you watch diligently and do according to all that the Levitical priests shall teach you. As I commanded them, so you shall be watchful and do. |
| 9 | Remember [earnestly] what the Lord your God did to Miriam on the way after you had come out of Egypt. |
| 10 | When you lend your brother anything, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge. |
| 11 | You shall stand outside and the man to whom you lend shall bring the pledge out to you. |
| 12 | And if the man is poor, you shall not keep his pledge overnight. |
| 13 | You shall surely restore to him the pledge at sunset, that he may sleep in his garment and bless you; and it shall be credited to you as righteousness (rightness and justice) before the Lord your God. |
| 14 | You shall not oppress
or
extort from a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is of your brethren or of your strangers
and
sojourners who are in your land inside your towns. |
| 15 | You shall give him his hire on the day he earns it before the sun goes down, for he is poor, and sets his heart upon it; lest he cry against you to the Lord, 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; only for his own sin shall anyone be put to death. |
| 17 | You shall not pervert the justice due the stranger
or
the sojourner or the fatherless, or take a widow’s garment in pledge. |
| 18 | But you shall [earnestly] remember that you were a slave in Egypt and the Lord your God redeemed you from there; therefore I command you to do this. |
| 19 | When you reap your harvest in your field and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it; it shall be for the stranger
and
the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. |
| 20 | When you beat your olive tree, do not go over the boughs again; the leavings shall be for the stranger
and
the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow. |
| 21 | When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not glean it afterward; it shall be for the stranger
and
the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow. |
| 22 | You shall [earnestly] remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt; therefore I command you to do this. |
Cross references:
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Deuteronomy 24:8 : Lev. 13:14, 15.
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Deuteronomy 24:9 : Num. 12:10.
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