Deuteronomy 24:1-13 ▼

1 When a man shall take a wife and he married her, and it was if she shall find not favor in his eyes because he found in her a nakedness of the word: and he wrote for her a writing of cutting off, and gave in her hand, and sent her away from his house.

2 And she shall go out of his house, and go and was to another man.

3 And the last man hated her and wrote for her a writing of cutting off, and gave in her hand, and sent her away from his house; or if the last man shall die which took her to him for a wife,

4 Her first husband who sent her away shall not be able to turn back to take her to be to him for a wife after that she was defiled; for it is an abomination before Jehovah: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin which Jehovah thy God gave to thee an inheritance.

5 When a man shall take a new wife, he shall not go out in the war, and nothing shall pass upon him for any word: he shall be free to his house one year, and gladden his wife whom he took.

6 He shall not take the two mill-stones as a pledge, and the rider, for it is taking the soul as a pledge.

7 If a man shall be found stealing a soul from his brethren from the sons of Israel, and shall lay hands upon him and sell him; and that thief died; and put thou away evil from the midst of thee.

8 Watch in the stroke of leprosy to watch greatly, and to do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them ye shall watch to do.

9 Remember what Jehovah thy God did to Miriam in the way, in your coming out of Egypt.

10 When thou shalt lend to thy friend the loan of any thing, thou shalt not go to his house to exchange his pledge:

11 Thou shalt stand without, and the man to whom was lent to him, shall bring out to thee the pledge without.

12 And if the man be poor, he shall not sleep with his pledge.

13 Turning back, thou shalt turn back to him the pledge as the sun went down; he lay down in his garment and blessed thee; and to thee shall be justice before Jehovah thy God.