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Chapter 24
1 If a man take a wife, and have her, and she find not favour in his eyes, for some uncleanness: he shall write a bill of divorce, and shall give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
2 And when she is departed, and marries another husband,
3 And he also hates her, and has given her a bill of divorce, and has sent her out of his house or is dead:
4 The former husband cannot take her again to wife: because she is defiled, and is become abominable before the Lord: lest you cause your land to sin, which the Lord your God shall give you to possess.
5 When a man has lately taken a wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall any public business be enjoined him, but he shall be free at home without fault, that for one year he may rejoice with his wife.
6 You shall not take the nether, nor the upper millstone to pledge: for he has pledged his life to you.
7 If ally man be found soliciting his brother of the children of Israel, and selling him shall take a price, he shall be put to death, and you shall take away the evil from the midst of you.
8 Observe diligently that you incur not the stroke of the leprosy, but you shall do whatsoever the priests of the Levitical race shall teach you, according to what I have commanded them, and fulfil you it carefully.
9 Remember what the Lord your God did to Mary, in the way when you came out of Egypt.
10 When you shall demand of your neighbour any thing that he owes you, you shall not go into his house to take away a pledge:
11 But then shall stand without, and he shall bring out to you what he has.
12 But if he be poor, the pledge shall not lodge with you that night,
13 But you shall restore it to him presently before the going down of the sun: that he may sleep in his own raiment and bless you, and you may have justice before the Lord your God.
14 You shall not refuse the hire of the needy, and the poor, whether he be your brother, or a stranger that dwells with you in the land, and is within your gates:
15 But you shall pay him the price of his labour the same day, before the going down of the sun, because he is poor, and with it maintains his life: lest he cry against you to the Lord, and it be reputed to you for a sin.
16 The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children for the fathers, but every one shall die for his own sin.
17 You shall not pervert the judgment of the stranger nor of the fatherless, neither shall you take away the widow's raiment for a pledge.
18 Remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and the Lord your God delivered you from thence. Therefore I command you to do this thing.
19 When you have reaped the corn in your field, and have forgot and left a sheaf, you shall not return to take it away: but you shall suffer the stranger, and the fatherless and the widow to tabs it away: that the Lord your God may bless you in all the works of your hands.
20 If you have gathered the fruit of your olive trees, you shall not return to gather whatsoever remains on the trees: but shall leave it for the stranger, for the fatherless, and the widow.
21 If you make the vintage of your vineyard, you shall not gather the clusters that remain, but they shall be for the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow.
22 Remember that you also were a bondman in Egypt, and therefore I command you to do this thing.