| Berean Study Bible | NET Bible |
| 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. | 1If a man marries a woman and she does not please him because he has found something offensive in her, then he may draw up a divorce document, give it to her, and evict her from his house. |
| 2If, after leaving his house, she goes and becomes another man’s wife, | 2When she has left him she may go and become someone else's wife. |
| 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, | 3If the second husband rejects her and then divorces her, gives her the papers, and evicts her from his house, or if the second husband who married her dies, |
| 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. | 4her first husband who divorced her is not permitted to remarry her after she has become ritually impure, for that is offensive to the LORD. You must not bring guilt on the land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance. |
| 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. | 5When a man is newly married, he need not go into the army nor be obligated in any way; he must be free to stay at home for a full year and bring joy to the wife he has married. |
| 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. | 6One must not take either lower or upper millstones as security on a loan, for that is like taking a life itself as security. |
| 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. | 7If a man is found kidnapping a person from among his fellow Israelites, and regards him as mere property and sells him, that kidnapper must die. In this way you will purge evil from among you. |
| 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. | 8Be careful during an outbreak of leprosy to follow precisely all that the Levitical priests instruct you; as I have commanded them, so you should do. |
| 9Remember what the LORD your God did to Miriam on the journey after you came out of Egypt. | 9Remember what the LORD your God did to Miriam along the way after you left Egypt. |
| 10When you lend anything to your neighbor, do not enter his house to collect security. | 10When you make any kind of loan to your neighbor, you may not go into his house to claim what he is offering as security. |
| 11You are to stand outside while the man to whom you are lending brings the security out to you. | 11You must stand outside and the person to whom you are making the loan will bring out to you what he is offering as security. |
| 12If he is a poor man, you must not go to sleep with the security in your possession; | 12If the person is poor you may not use what he gives you as security for a covering. |
| 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. | 13You must by all means return to him at sunset the item he gave you as security so that he may sleep in his outer garment and bless you for it; it will be considered a just deed by the LORD your God. |
| 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. | 14You must not oppress a lowly and poor servant, whether one from among your fellow Israelites or from the resident foreigners who are living in your land and villages. |
| 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. | 15You must pay his wage that very day before the sun sets, for he is poor and his life depends on it. Otherwise he will cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin. |
| 16Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor children for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin. | 16Fathers must not be put to death for what their children do, nor children for what their fathers do; each must be put to death for his own sin. |
| 17Do not deny justice to the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow’s cloak as security. | 17You must not pervert justice due a resident foreigner or an orphan, or take a widow's garment as security for a loan. |
| 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. | 18Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and that the LORD your God redeemed you from there; therefore I am commanding you to do all this. |
| 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. | 19Whenever you reap your harvest in your field and leave some unraked grain there, you must not return to get it; it should go to the resident foreigner, orphan, and widow so that the LORD your God may bless all the work you do. |
| 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. | 20When you beat your olive tree you must not repeat the procedure; the remaining olives belong to the resident foreigner, orphan, and widow. |
| 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. | 21When you gather the grapes of your vineyard you must not do so a second time; they should go to the resident foreigner, orphan, and widow. |
| 22Remember that you were slaves in the land of Egypt. Therefore I am commanding you to do this. | 22Remember that you were slaves in the land of Egypt; therefore, I am commanding you to do all this. |
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