24Deuteronomy 24

1When a man takes a wife and marries her, then it shall be, if she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and put it in her hand, and send her out of his house.Select Deuteronomy 24:1

2When she has departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife.Select Deuteronomy 24:2

3If the latter husband hates her, and write her a bill of divorce, and puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, who took her to be his wife;Select Deuteronomy 24:3

4her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before Yahweh. You shall not cause the land to sin, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.Select Deuteronomy 24:4

5When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be assigned any business. He shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.Select Deuteronomy 24:5

6No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone as a pledge; for he takes a life in pledge.Select Deuteronomy 24:6

7If a man is found stealing any of his brothers of the children of Israel, and he deals with him as a slave, or sells him; then that thief shall die. So you shall remove the evil from your midst.Select Deuteronomy 24:7

8Be careful in the plague of leprosy, that you observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites teach you. As I commanded them, so you shall observe to do.Select Deuteronomy 24:8

9Remember what Yahweh your God did to Miriam, by the way as you came out of Egypt.Select Deuteronomy 24:9

10When you lend your neighbor any kind of loan, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge.Select Deuteronomy 24:10

11You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you lend shall bring the pledge outside to you.Select Deuteronomy 24:11

12If he is a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge.Select Deuteronomy 24:12

13You shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his garment, and bless you. It shall be righteousness to you before Yahweh your God.Select Deuteronomy 24:13

14You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers, or one of the foreigners who are in your land within your gates.Select Deuteronomy 24:14

15In his day you shall give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor, and sets his heart on it; lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you.Select Deuteronomy 24:15

16The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers. Every man shall be put to death for his own sin.Select Deuteronomy 24:16

17You shall not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge;Select Deuteronomy 24:17

18but you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you there. Therefore I command you to do this thing.Select Deuteronomy 24:18

19When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.Select Deuteronomy 24:19

20When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.Select Deuteronomy 24:20

21When you harvest your vineyard, you shall not glean it after yourselves. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.Select Deuteronomy 24:21

22You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt. Therefore I command you to do this thing.Select Deuteronomy 24:22