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Chapter 24  
     
1.
 When a man has taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he has 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.
  
2.
 And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's wife.
  
3.
 And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and gives it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife;
  
4.
 Her 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 you shall not cause the land to sin, which the Lord thy God gives you for an inheritance.
  
5.
 When a man has 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 has taken.
  
6.
 No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge.
  
7.
 If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and makes merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die; and you shall put evil away from among you.
  
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.
  
9.
 Remember what the Lord thy God did unto Miriam by the way, after that you were come forth out of Egypt.
  
10.
 When you dost lend thy brother any thing, you shall not go into his house to fetch his pledge.
  
11.
 Thou shall stand abroad, and the man to whom you dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee.
  
12.
 And if the man be poor, you shall not sleep with his pledge:
  
13.
 In any case you shall deliver him the pledge again when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto you before the Lord thy God.
  
14.
 Thou shall 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:
  
15.
 At his day you shall 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 you unto the Lord, and it be sin unto thee.
  
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.
  
17.
 Thou shall not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:
  
18.
 But you shall remember that you were a bondman in Egypt, and the Lord thy God redeemed you thence: therefore I command you to do this thing.
  
19.
 When you cuttest down your harvest in thy field, and have forgot a sheaf in the field, you shall 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 you in all the work of your hands.
  
20.
 When you beatest your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
  
21.
 When you gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, you shall not glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
  
22.
 And you shall remember that you were a bondman in the land of Egypt: therefore I command you to do this thing.
  

 
 
 

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