Deuteronomy 24

24When a ^aman 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; ^4bHer 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. ^5cWhen 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 ^dcheer up his wife which he hath taken.

⁶No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh ^ea man’s life to pledge. ^7fIf a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and ^gmaketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die; ^hand thou shalt put evil away from among you. ⁸Take heed in ⁱthe 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 ^junto 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: ^13kIn any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and ^lbless thee: and ^mit shall be righteousness unto thee before the Lord thy God. ¹⁴Thou shalt not ⁿoppress 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 ^othou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and ^†setteth his heart upon it: ^plest he cry against thee unto the Lord, and it be sin unto thee. ^16qThe 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. ^17rThou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; ^snor take a widow’s raiment to pledge: ¹⁸But ^tthou 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. ^19uWhen thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot ^wa 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 ^xbless 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 ^yglean it ^†afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow. ²²And ^zthou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this thing.