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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1"If a man chooses to enter into marriage with a woman, but she finds herself displeasing to him because he has found something objectionable about her, he must draw up divorce papers, hand them to her, and then send her out of his house. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2If she goes out from his house, becomes the wife of another man, |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3and this second husband dislikes her, he, also, must draw up divorce papers, hand them to her, and then send her away from his house. Should the second husband die, |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4her first husband who married her and divorced her earlier must not remarry her, because she was defiled, since this is detestable to the LORD. Don't defile the land that the LORD your God is about to give you as a possession. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5"When a man is newly married, he must not be sent out to war or have a related duty placed on him. Let him stay home for one year and be happy with his wife whom he has married. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6"Don't take a pair of millstones, especially the upper millstone, as collateral for a loan, because this means taking a man's livelihood. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7"If a man is found kidnapping his relative, a fellow Israeli, and mistreats or sells him, that kidnapper must die. By doing this, you will remove this evil from among you. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8"In cases of leprosy, be very careful to observe exactly what the Levitical priests instructed you. Carefully follow what I have commanded them. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Remember what the LORD your God did to Miriam along the way as you were coming out of Egypt." |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10"When you loan something to your neighbor, don't enter his house to seize what he offered as collateral. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Stay outside and let the man to whom you made the loan bring it out to you. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12If he is a poor man, don't go to sleep with his collateral in your possession. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Be sure to return his garment to him at sunset so that he may sleep with it, and he will bless you. It will be a righteous deed in the presence of the LORD your God. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Don't take advantage of a hired person who is poor and needy, whether he's your fellow citizen or a foreigner who lives in your city. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Pay his wages that same day before the sun sets, because he is poor and his livelihood depends on it. Otherwise, he may cry out to the LORD against you, and you will incur guilt." |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16"Fathers must not be put to death on account of their children's sin; nor shall children die on account of their fathers' sin. Each person is to be put to death for his own sin. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17"Don't deny justice to a foreigner or to an orphan, nor take a widow's garment as collateral for a loan. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Remember to observe this because you were slaves in Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you from there. That is why I am commanding you to do this. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19"When you are reaping in the field, and you overlook a sheaf, don't return to get it. Let it remain for the foreigner, the orphan, or the widow, in order that the LORD your God may bless everything you undertake. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20When you harvest the olives from your trees, don't go back to the branches a second time. What remains is for the foreigner, the orphan, or the widow. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21When you harvest the grapes in your vineyard, don't go back a second time. What remains are for the foreigner, the orphan, or the widow. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Remember to do this because you were slaves in the land of Egypt. That is why I'm commanding you to do this." |
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