Deuteronomy 24:1-18 ▼

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.

12 And if the man is poor, you shall not lie asleep with his pledge.

13 You shall surely return the pledge to him when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his own garment and bless you, and to you it shall be righteousness before the face of YHWH your God.

14 You shall not oppress a hireling who is poor and needy, one of your brothers or one of the foreigners who is in your land within your gates.

15 Each day you shall give him his wage, and let the sun not go down on it—for he is poor, and on it he lifts up his heart—lest he cry out against you to YHWH, and it be sin in you.

16 Fathers shall not be put to death for sons, and neither shall sons be put to death for fathers. A man shall be put to death for his own sin.

17 You shall not pervert justice due the sojourner or the fatherless, nor take as a pledge the garment of a widow.

18 And you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and YHWH your God redeemed you from there. Upon thus I command you to do this thing.