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Deuteronomy 24 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

Deu 24:1

Deu 24:1When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he hath found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

Deu 24:2

Deu 24:2And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife.

Deu 24:3

Deu 24:3And 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, who took her to be his wife;

Deu 24:4

Deu 24:4her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before Jehovah: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.

Deu 24:5

Deu 24:5When a man taketh a new wife, he shall not go out in the host, neither shall he be charged with any business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he hath taken.

Sundry Laws

Deu 24:6

Deu 24:6No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he taketh a man’s life to pledge.

Deu 24:7

Deu 24:7If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and he deal with him as a slave, or sell him; then that thief shall die: so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee.

Deu 24:8

Deu 24:8Take 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.

Deu 24:9

Deu 24:9Remember what Jehovah thy God did unto Miriam, by the way as ye came forth out of Egypt.

Deu 24:10

Deu 24:10When thou dost lend thy neighbor any manner of loan, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.

Deu 24:11

Deu 24:11Thou shalt stand without, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring forth the pledge without unto thee.

Deu 24:12

Deu 24:12And if he be a poor man, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge;

Deu 24:13

Deu 24:13thou shalt surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his garment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before Jehovah thy God.

Deu 24:14

Deu 24:14Thou shalt not oppress a hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy sojourners that are in thy land within thy gates:

Deu 24:15

Deu 24:15in 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 Jehovah, and it be sin unto thee.

Deu 24:16

Deu 24:16The 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.

Deu 24:17

Deu 24:17Thou shalt not wrest the justice due to the sojourner, or to the fatherless, nor take the widow’s raiment to pledge;

Deu 24:18

Deu 24:18but thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and Jehovah thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this thing.

Deu 24:19

Deu 24:19When thou reapest thy 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 sojourner, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in all the work of thy hands.

Deu 24:20

Deu 24:20When thou beatest thine olive-tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the sojourner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

Deu 24:21

Deu 24:21When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it after thee: it shall be for the sojourner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

Deu 24:22

Deu 24:22And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this thing.
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