[1] "When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in
his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a
bill of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, and
she departs out of his house, [2] and if she goes and becomes another man's
wife, [3] and the latter husband dislikes her and writes her a bill of
divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the
latter husband dies, who took her to be his wife, [4] then her former
husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after
she has been defiled; for that is an abomination before the LORD, and you
shall not bring guilt upon the land which the LORD your God gives you for
an inheritance. [5] "When a man is newly married, he shall not go out with
the army or be charged with any business; he shall be free at home one
year, to be happy with his wife whom he has taken. [6] "No man shall take a
mill or an upper millstone in pledge; for he would be taking a life in
pledge. [7] "If a man is found stealing one of his brethren, the people of
Israel, and if he treats him as a slave or sells him, then that thief shall
die; so you shall purge the evil from the midst of you. [8] "Take heed, in
an attack of leprosy, to be very careful to do according to all that the
Levitical priests shall direct you; as I commanded them, so you shall be
careful to do. [9] Remember what the LORD your God did to Miriam on the way
as you came forth out of Egypt. [10] "When you make your neighbor a loan of
any sort, you shall not go into his house to fetch his pledge. [11] You
shall stand outside, and the man to whom you make the loan shall bring the
pledge out to you. [12] And if he is a poor man, you shall not sleep in his
pledge; [13] when the sun goes down, you shall restore to him the pledge
that he may sleep in his cloak and bless you; and it shall be righteousness
to you before the LORD your God. [14] "You shall not oppress a hired
servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brethren or one of
the sojourners who are in your land within your towns; [15] you shall give
him his hire on the day he earns it, before the sun goes down (for he is
poor, and sets his heart upon it); lest he cry against you to the LORD, and
it be sin in you. [16] "The fathers shall not be put to death for the
children, nor 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 pervert the
justice due to the sojourner or to the fatherless, or take a widow's
garment in pledge; [18] but you shall remember that you were a slave in
Egypt and the LORD your God redeemed you from there; therefore I command
you to do this. [19] "When you reap your harvest in your field, and have
forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it; it shall
be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow; that the LORD your God
may bless you in all the work of your hands. [20] When you beat your olive
trees, you shall not go over the boughs again; it shall be for the
sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow. [21] When you gather the grapes
of your vineyard, you shall not glean it afterward; it shall be for the
sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow. [22] You shall remember that you
were a slave in the land of Egypt; therefore I command you to do this.
