Deuteronomy 24

Revised Geneva Translation

24 “When a man takes a wife and marries her, if so be she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some filthiness in her, then let him write her a bill of divorcement and put it in her hand and send her out of his house.

² “And when she has departed out of his house, and gone her way, and marries another man —

³ “if the latter husband hates her and writes her a letter of divorcement and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter man who took her for his wife dies —

⁴ “her first husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife after she is defiled. For that is abomination in the sight of the LORD. And you shall not cause the land to sin which the LORD your God gives you to inherit.

⁵ “When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go to war. Nor shall he be charged with any business, but shall be free at home for one year and rejoice with his wife whom he has taken.

⁶ “No man shall take the lower or the upper millstone to pledge. For this gage is his living.

⁷ “If any man is found stealing any of his brothers from the children of Israel, and makes merchandise of him, or sells him, that thief shall die. So shall you put evil away from among you.

⁸ “Be careful of the plague of leprosy, so that you observe diligently and do according to all that the priests of the Levites shall teach you. Be careful you do as I commanded them.

⁹ “Remember what the LORD your God did to Miriam on the way, after you had come out of Egypt.

¹⁰ “When you shall lend your neighbor anything, you shall not go into his house to fetch his pledge.

¹¹ “But you shall stand outside. And the man who borrowed it from you shall bring the pledge out of the doors to you.

¹² “Furthermore, if it is a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge,

¹³ “but you shall restore to him the pledge when the Sun goes down, so that he may sleep in his clothes and bless you. And it shall be righteousness to you before the LORD your God.

¹⁴ “You shall not oppress a hired servant who is needy and poor, from your brothers or from the stranger who is in your land within your gates.

¹⁵ “You shall give him his wages for his day and the Sun shall not go down upon it (for he is poor and with such sustains his life), lest he cry against you to the LORD, and it is sin to you.

¹⁶ “The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children put to death for the fathers. But every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

¹⁷ “You shall not pervert the right of the stranger or of the fatherless, nor take a widow’s clothes to pledge.

¹⁸ “But remember that you were a servant in Egypt, and how the LORD your God delivered you from there. Therefore, I command you to do this thing.

¹⁹ “When you cut down your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to fetch it. It shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the works of your hands.

²⁰ “When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again. It shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

²¹ “When you gather your vineyard, you shall not glean afterward. They shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

²² “And remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt. Therefore, I command you to do this thing.”