| Chapter 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. --
|
2 |
When she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's [wife]. --
|
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; --
|
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. --
|
5 |
When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the host, neither shall he be charged with any business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken. --
|
6 |
No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he takes [a man's] life to pledge. --
|
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 shall you put away the evil from the midst of 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 Yahweh your God did to Miriam, by the way as you came forth out of Egypt. --
|
10 |
When you do lend your neighbor any manner of loan, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge. --
|
11 |
You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you do lend shall bring forth the pledge outside to you. --
|
12 |
If he be a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge; --
|
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. --
|
14 |
You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he be of your brothers, or of your sojourners who are in your land within your gates: --
|
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. --
|
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 |
You shall not wrest the justice [due] to the sojourner, [or] to the fatherless, nor take the widow's clothing to pledge; --
|
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. --
|
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 sojourner, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. --
|
20 |
When you beat your olive-tree, you shall not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the sojourner, for the fatherless, and for the widow. --
|
21 |
When you gather [the grapes of] your vineyard, you shall not glean it after you: it shall be for the sojourner, for the fatherless, and for the widow. --
|
22 |
You shall remember that you were a bondservant in the land of Egypt: therefore I command you to do this thing. --
|