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Deuteronomy 24 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

Deu 24:1And if any one should take a wife, and should dwell with her, then it shall come to pass if she should not have found favour before him, because he has found some unbecoming thing in her, that he shall write for her a [fn]bill of divorcement, and give it into her hands, and he shall send her away out of his house.
Deu 24:2And if she should go away and be married to another man;
Deu 24:3and the last husband should hate her, and write for her a bill of divorcement; and should give it into her hands, and send her away out of his house, and the last husband should die, who took her to himself for a wife;
Deu 24:4the former husband who sent her away shall not be able to return and take her to himself for a wife, after she has been defiled; because it is an abomination before the Lord thy God, and ye shall not defile the land, which the Lord thy God gives thee to inherit.
Deu 24:5And if any one should have recently taken a wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall any thing be laid upon him; he shall be [fn]free in his house; for one year he shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.
Deu 24:6Thou shalt not take for a pledge the under millstone, nor the upper millstone; for [fn]he who does so takes life for a pledge.
Deu 24:7And if a man should be caught stealing [fn]one of his brethren of the children of Israel, and having overcome him he should sell him, that thief shall die; so shalt thou remove that evil one from yourselves.
Deu 24:8Take heed to thyself in regard of the plague of leprosy: thou shalt take great heed to do according to all the law, which the priests the Levites shall report to you; take heed to do, as I have charged you.
Deu 24:9Remember all that the Lord thy God did to Mariam in the way, when ye were going out of Egypt.
Deu 24:10If thy neighbour owe thee a debt, any debt whatsoever, thou shalt not go into his house to take his pledge:
Deu 24:11thou shalt stand without, and the man who is in thy debt shall bring the pledge out to thee.
Deu 24:12And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge.
Deu 24:13Thou shalt surely restore his pledge at sunset, and he shall sleep in his garment, and he shall bless thee; and it shall be [fn]mercy to thee before the Lord thy God.
Deu 24:14Thou shalt not unjustly withhold the wages of the poor and needy of thy brethren, or of the strangers who are in thy cities.
Deu 24:15Thou shalt pay him his wages the same day, the sun shall not go down upon it, because he is poor and he trusts in it; and he shall cry against thee to the Lord, and it shall be sin in thee.
Deu 24:16The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, and the sons shall not be put to death for the fathers; every one shall [fn]be put to death for his own sin.
Deu 24:17Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of the stranger and the fatherless, and widow; thou shalt not take the widow's garment for a pledge.
Deu 24:18And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the Lord thy God redeemed thee from thence; therefore I charge thee to do this thing.
Deu 24:19And when thou shalt have reaped corn in thy field, and shalt have forgotten a sheaf in thy field, thou shalt not return to take it; it shall be for the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the works of thy hands.
Deu 24:20And if thou shouldest gather thine olives, thou shalt not return to collect the remainder; it shall be for the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, and thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt; therefore I command thee to do this thing.
Deu 24:21And whensoever thou shalt gather the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean what thou hast left; it shall be for the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow:
Deu 24:22and thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt; therefore I command thee to do this thing.
BES Footnotes
Or, book.
Lit. guiltless.
Gr. this man.
Gr. a soul.
ie. mercy shewn by thee.
Gr. die in his own sin.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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