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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 something improper about her, he may write her a divorce certificate, 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 divorce certificate, hands it to her, and sends her away from his house or if he dies, |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4the first husband who sent her away may not marry her again after she has been defiled, because that would be detestable to the LORD. You must not bring guilt on the land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance." |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5When a man takes a bride, he must not go out with the army or be liable for any duty. He is free to stay at home for one year, so that he can bring joy to the wife he has married." |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Do not take a pair of millstones or an upper millstone as security for a debt, because that is like taking a life as security." |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7If a man is discovered kidnapping one of his Israelite brothers, whether he treats him as a slave or sells him, the kidnapper must die. You must purge the evil from you." |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Be careful in a case of infectious skin disease, following carefully everything the Levitical priests instruct you to do. 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 left Egypt." |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10When you make a loan of any kind to your neighbor, do not enter his house to collect what he offers as security. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11You must stand outside while the man you are making the loan to brings the security out to you. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12If he is a poor man, you must not sleep in the garment he has given as security. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Be sure to return it to him at sunset. Then he will sleep in it and bless you, and this will be counted as righteousness to you 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 one of your brothers or one of the foreigners residing within a town in your land. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15You are to pay him his wages each day before the sun sets, because he is poor and depends on them. Otherwise he will cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be held guilty." |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Fathers are not to be put to death for their children or children for their fathers; each person will be put to death for his own sin. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Do not deny justice to a foreigner or fatherless child, and do not take a widow's garment as security. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you from there. Therefore I am commanding you to do this." |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19When you reap the harvest in your field, and you forget a sheaf in the field, 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 knock down the fruit from your olive tree, 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 glean what is left. What remains will be for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt. Therefore I am commanding you to do this." |
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