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 foreigners 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 foreigner, 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 foreigner, 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 foreigner, 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 foreigner, 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.
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