King James VersionDeuteronomy24

Deuteronomy

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.