Deuteronomy 24:1-11 ▼

1 When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it comes to pass that she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found in her some uncleanness, and he writes to her a certificate of divorce and puts it into her hand and sends her out of his house,

2 and she has departed from his house and goes and becomes to another man,

3 and the latter husband detests 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 as his wife,

4 then her former husband who divorced her must not take her back to be wife to him after that she has been defiled; for that is an abomination before the face of YHWH, and you shall not bring sin upon the land that YHWH your God is giving to you as an inheritance.

5 When a man has taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war or be charged with anything. He shall be free at home one year, and bring joy to his wife whom he has taken.

6 No one shall take in pledge the lower or the upper millstone, for it is a life for a pledge.

7 If a man is found kidnapping any of his brothers of the sons of Israel, and he mistreats him or sells him, that thief shall die. And you shall put away the evil from among you.

8 Take heed in an outbreak of leprosy that you observe carefully and do according to all that the priests, the Levites, shall teach you?. As I commanded them, you? shall be careful to do.

9 Remember what YHWH your God did to Miriam on the way, when you? came out of Egypt.

10 When you lend your brother a loan of anything, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge.

11 You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you lend it shall bring out to you the pledge outside.