Bible
(KJV)
Deuteronomy
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.
2 And
when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's wife.
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;
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.
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.
6 No
man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh 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, 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 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 that is poor and needy, whether he be
of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates:
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.
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, 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 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.