| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1"When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens that she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out from his house, |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2and she leaves his house and goes and becomes another man's wife, |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3and if the latter husband turns against her and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter husband dies who took her to be his wife, |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4then her former husband who sent her away is not allowed to take her again to be his wife, since she has been defiled; for that is an abomination before the LORD, and you shall not bring sin on the land which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5"When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out with the army nor be charged with any duty; he shall be free at home one year and shall give happiness to his wife whom he has taken. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6"No one shall take a handmill or an upper millstone in pledge, for he would be taking a life in pledge. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7"If a man is caught kidnapping any of his countrymen of the sons of Israel, and he deals with him violently or sells him, then that thief shall die; so you shall purge the evil from among you. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8"Be careful against an infection of leprosy, that you diligently observe and do according to all that the Levitical priests teach you; as I have commanded them, so you shall be careful to do. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9"Remember what the LORD your God did to Miriam on the way as you came out of Egypt. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10"When you make your neighbor a loan of any sort, you shall not enter his house to take his pledge. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11"You shall remain outside, and the man to whom you make the loan shall bring the pledge out to you. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12"If he is a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13"When the sun goes down you shall surely return the pledge to him, that he may sleep in his cloak and bless you; and it will be righteousness for you before the LORD your God. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14"You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your countrymen or one of your aliens who is in your land in your towns. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15"You shall give him his wages on his day before the sun sets, for he is poor and sets his heart on it; so that he will not cry against you to the LORD and it become sin in you. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16"Fathers shall not be put to death for their sons, nor shall sons be put to death for their fathers; everyone shall be put to death for his own sin. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17"You shall not pervert the justice due an alien or an orphan, nor take a widow's garment in pledge. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18"But you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and that the LORD your God redeemed you from there; therefore I am commanding you to do this thing. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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 alien, for the orphan, and for the widow, in order that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20"When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again; it shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21"When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not go over it again; it shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22"You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt; therefore I am commanding you to do this thing. |
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