1 When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her, it shall be if she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a letter of divorce, and give it into her hand, and send her out of his house. DBY — Deuteronomy 24:1
2 And she shall depart out of his house, and go away, and may become another man’s wife. DBY — Deuteronomy 24:2
3 And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a letter of divorce, and give it into her hand, and send her out of his house; or if the latter husband die who took her as his wife; DBY — Deuteronomy 24:3
4 her first husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for it is an abomination before Jehovah; and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance. DBY — Deuteronomy 24:4
5 When a man hath newly taken a wife, he shall not go out with the army, neither shall any kind of business be imposed upon him; he shall be free for his house one year, and shall gladden his wife whom he hath taken. DBY — Deuteronomy 24:5
6 No man shall take the hand-mill or the upper millstone in pledge; for it would be taking life in pledge. DBY — Deuteronomy 24:6
7 If a man be found who hath stolen one of his brethren of the children of Israel, and who hath treated him as a slave and sold him, that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from thy midst. DBY — Deuteronomy 24:7
8 Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou take great heed, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them shall ye take heed to do. DBY — Deuteronomy 24:8
9 Remember what Jehovah thy God did unto Miriam on the way, after that ye came forth out of Egypt. DBY — Deuteronomy 24:9
10 When thou dost lend thy brother anything, thou shalt not go into his house to secure his pledge. DBY — Deuteronomy 24:10
11 Thou shalt stand outside, and the man to whom thou hast made a loan shall bring out the pledge to thee without. DBY — Deuteronomy 24:11
12 And if the man be needy, thou shalt not lie down with his pledge; DBY — Deuteronomy 24:12
13 in any case thou shalt return him the pledge at the going down of the sun, that he may sleep in his own upper garment and bless thee; and it shall be righteousness unto thee before Jehovah thy God. DBY — Deuteronomy 24:13
14 Thou shalt not oppress a hired servant [who is] poor and needy of thy brethren, or of thy sojourners who are in thy land within thy gates: DBY — Deuteronomy 24:14
15 on his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and his soul yearneth after it; lest he cry against thee to Jehovah, and it be a sin in thee. DBY — Deuteronomy 24:15
16 The fathers shall not be put to death for the sons, neither shall the sons be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin. DBY — Deuteronomy 24:16
17 Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, [or] of the fatherless; and thou shalt not take in pledge a widow’s garment. DBY — Deuteronomy 24:17
18 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and that Jehovah thy God redeemed thee from thence; therefore I command thee to do this thing. DBY — Deuteronomy 24:18
19 When thou reapest thy harvest in thy field, and forgettest a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not return to fetch it; it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in all the work of thy hands. DBY — Deuteronomy 24:19
20 When thou shakest thine olive-tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again; it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow. DBY — Deuteronomy 24:20
21 When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it afterwards; it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow. DBY — Deuteronomy 24:21
22 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt; therefore I command thee to do this thing. DBY — Deuteronomy 24:22