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.