Deuteronomy 24
1When
a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some
uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
2And when she is departed out of his house,
she may go and be another man's wife.
3And
if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his
house; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife;
4Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is
defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the LORD thy God giveth
thee for an inheritance.
5When a man hath
taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home
one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.
6No
man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge.
7If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and
maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you.
8Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou observe diligently, and do according
to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so ye shall observe to do.
9Remember what the LORD thy God did unto Miriam by the way, after that ye were
come forth out of Egypt.
10When thou dost
lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.
11Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto
thee.
12And if the man be poor, thou shalt
not sleep with his pledge:
13In any case thou
shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall
be righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God.
14Thou
shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in
thy land within thy gates:
15At his day thou
shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry
against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto thee.
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.
17Thou
shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:
18But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and the LORD thy God
redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this thing.
19When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt
not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless
thee in all the work of thine hands.
20When
thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless,
and for the widow.
21When thou gatherest the
grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
22And thou shalt remember that thou wast a
bondman in the land of Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this thing.
