Deuteronomy Chapter 24 Back Next{24:1} When a man takes a wife, and marries her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of
divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
{24:2} When she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's wife.
{24:3} If the latter
husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, who took her to be his wife;
{24:4} her 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: and you shall not cause the land to sin, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.
{24:5} When 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.
{24:6} No man shall take the
mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he takes a life in pledge.
{24:7} If a man be found stealing any of his
brothers of the children of
Israel, and he deal with him as a slave, or sell him; then that thief shall die: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.
{24:8} Take heed in the plague of
leprosy, that you observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the
Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so you shall observe to do.
{24:9} Remember what Yahweh your God did to
Miriam, by the way as you came forth out of
Egypt.
{24:10} When you do lend your neighbor any kind of
loan, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge.
{24:11} You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you do lend shall bring forth the pledge outside to you.
{24:12} If he be a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge;
{24:13} you shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his garment, and
bless you: and it shall be righteousness to you before Yahweh your God.
{24:14} You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he be of your brothers, or of your
foreigners who are in your land within your
gates:
{24:15} in 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.
{24:16} The
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.
{24:17} You shall not deprive the foreigner, or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow's clothing in pledge;
{24:18} but you shall remember that you were a bondservant in Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you there: therefore I command you to do this thing.
{24:19} When you reap your
harvest in your
field, and have forgot 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.
{24:20} When 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.
{24:21} When you harvest your vineyard, you shall not
glean it after yourselves: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
{24:22} You shall remember that you were a bondservant in the land of Egypt: therefore I command you to do this thing.
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