Deuteronomy - Chapter 24 | King James Version (KJV)

  • 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 {cf15I 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 {cf15I wife}.
  • 3. And {cf15I if} the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth {cf15I it} in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her {cf15I 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 {cf15I is} abomination before the LORD: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee {cf15I for} an inheritance.
  • 5. When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: {cf15I but} he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.
  • 6. No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh {cf15I a man's} life to pledge.
  • 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.
  • 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, {cf15I so} ye shall observe to do.
  • 9. Remember what the LORD thy God did unto Miriam by the way, after that ye were come forth out of Egypt.
  • 10. When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.
  • 11. Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee.
  • 12. And if the man {cf15I be} poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:
  • 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.
  • 14. Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant {cf15I that is} poor and needy, {cf15I whether he be} of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that {cf15I are} in thy land within thy gates:
  • 15. At his day thou shalt give {cf15I him} his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he {cf15I is} poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee 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 shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, {cf15I nor} of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 21. When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean {cf15I it} afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
  • 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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