Deuteronomy 24

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1 If a man takes a wife and marries her, and she does not find favor in his eyes, because he finds in it something nasty, and write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house,
2 and she leaves his house, goes and becomes another man's wife,
3 but if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house, or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife -
4 it can not be her first husband, sent her away, take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is an abomination to the Lord, and shall not bring sin the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.

5 If someone has taken a new wife, he shall not go to war, and nothing shall lay upon him; he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.
6 No man shall take in pledge the lower and upper millstone, for he taketh the soul in pledge.
7 If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and enslaved him, and sold him, then that thief shall die; and [so] shalt thou put evil away from among you.
8 Heed in the plague of leprosy, carefully observe and do according to all the [law], which will teach you the priests the Levites; observe carefully what I have commanded them;
9 Remember what the LORD thy did to Miriam in the way of God, when you came out of Egypt.
10 If you give your neighbor anything loan, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge,
eleven wait on the street, and he whom thou dost lend shall bring you out the pledge;
12 if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:
13 him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee, --and you put [these things] in righteousness before the Lord your God.

14 Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, of your or your alien brothers who are in thy land within thy gates;
15 on the same day thou shalt give him his hire, that the sun has not come before that, because he is poor, and it is waiting for his soul; 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 their fathers; every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
17 Thou shalt not wrest the stranger, the fatherless; and nor take a widow's raiment to pledge;
18 Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and the Lord redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this thing.
19 When you reap your harvest in your field and forget a sheaf in the field, do not go back to get it; let it be for the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of your hands.
20 When thou beatest thine olive tree, do not go over the boughs shall be for the stranger, the fatherless and the widow.
21 When you gather the grapes of thy vineyard, do not glean it shall be for the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow;
22 And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this thing.

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