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.
