Deuteronomy24

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(Deu 24:1) When a man 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.
(Deu 24:2) And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's {wife}.
(Deu 24:3) And {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;
(Deu 24:4) 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 thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the Lord thy God giveth thee {for} an inheritance.
(Deu 24:5) When 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 cheer up his wife which he hath taken.
(Deu 24:6) No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh {a man's} life to pledge.
(Deu 24:7) If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you.
(Deu 24:8) Take heed in the 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.
(Deu 24:9) Remember what the Lord thy God did unto Miriam by the way, after that ye were come forth out of Egypt.
(Deu 24:10) When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.
(Deu 24:11) Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee.
(Deu 24:12) And if the man {be} poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:
(Deu 24:13) In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the Lord thy God.
(Deu 24:14) Thou shalt 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:
(Deu 24:15) At his day thou shalt 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 thee unto the Lord, and it be sin unto thee.
(Deu 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.
(Deu 24:17) Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, {nor} of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:
(Deu 24:18) But thou 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.
(Deu 24:19) When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a 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 bless thee in all the work of thine hands.
(Deu 24:20) When 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.
(Deu 24:21) When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean {it} afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
(Deu 24:22) And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this thing.
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