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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1If a man marries a woman, but she becomes displeasing to him because he finds some indecency in her, he may write her a certificate of divorce, hand it to her, and send her away from his house. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2If, after leaving his house, she goes and becomes another man’s wife, |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3and the second man hates her, writes her a certificate of divorce, hands it to her, and sends her away from his house, or if he dies, |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4then the husband who divorced her first may not remarry her after she has been defiled, for that is an abomination to the LORD. You must not bring sin upon the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5If a man is newly married, he must not be sent to war or be pressed into any duty. For one year he is free to stay at home and bring joy to the wife he has married. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Do not take a pair of millstones or even an upper millstone as security for a debt, because that would be taking one’s livelihood as security. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7If a man is caught kidnapping one of his Israelite brothers, whether he treats him as a slave or sells him, the kidnapper must die. So you must purge the evil from among you. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8In cases of infectious skin diseases, be careful to diligently follow everything the Levitical priests instruct you. Be careful to do as I have commanded them. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Remember what the LORD your God did to Miriam on the journey after you came out of Egypt. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10When you lend anything to your neighbor, do not enter his house to collect security. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11You are to stand outside while the man to whom you are lending brings the security out to you. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12If he is a poor man, you must not go to sleep with the security in your possession; |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13be sure to return it to him by sunset, so that he may sleep in his own cloak and bless you, and this will be credited to you as righteousness before the LORD your God. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Do not oppress a hired hand who is poor and needy, whether he is a brother or a foreigner residing in one of your towns. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15You are to pay his wages each day before sunset, because he is poor and depends on them. Otherwise he may cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor children for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Do not deny justice to the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow’s cloak as security. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you from that place. Therefore I am commanding you to do this. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19If you are harvesting in your field and forget a sheaf there, do not go back to get it. It is to be left for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20When you beat the olives from your trees, you must not go over the branches again. What remains will be for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you must not go over the vines again. What remains will be for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Remember that you were slaves in the land of Egypt. Therefore I am commanding you to do this. |
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