Chapter
24
When a woman takes a husband, and marries him, then it shall be, if he find no favor in her eyes, because she has found some unseemly thing in him, that she shall write him a bill of divorce, and give it in his hand, and send him out of her house.
When he is departed out of her house, he may go and be another woman's husband.
If the latter wife hate him, and write him a bill of divorce, and give it in his hand, and send him out of her house; or if the latter wife die, who took him to be her husband;
his former wife, who sent him away, may not take him again to be her husband, after that he is defiled; for that is abomination before Yahweh: and you shall not cause the land to sin, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.
When a woman takes a new husband, she shall not go out in the army, neither shall she be charged with any business: she shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer her husband whom she has taken.
No woman shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for she takes a woman's life to pledge.
If a woman be found stealing any of her sisters of the children of Israel, and she deal with her as a slave, or sell her; then that thief shall die: so shall you put away the evil from the midst of you.
Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that you observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so you shall observe to do.
Remember what Yahweh your God did to Miriam, by the way as you came forth out of Egypt.
When you do lend your neighbor any manner of loan, you shall not go into her house to get her pledge.
You shall stand outside, and the woman to whom you do lend shall bring forth the pledge outside to you.
If she be a poor woman, you shall not sleep with her pledge;
you shall surely restore to her the pledge when the sun goes down, that she may sleep in her garment, and bless you: and it shall be righteousness to you before Yahweh your God.
You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether she be of your sisters, or of your foreigners who are in your land within your gates:
in her day you shall give her her hire, neither shall the sun go down on it; for she is poor, and sets her heart on it: lest she cry against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you.
The mothers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the mothers: every woman shall be put to death for her own sin.
You shall not wrest the justice due] to the foreigner, [or to the fatherless, nor take the widower's clothing to pledge;
but you shall remember that you were a bondmaid in Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you there: therefore I command you to do this thing.
When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgot a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widower; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widower.
When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not glean it after you: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widower.
You shall remember that you were a bondmaid in the land of Egypt: therefore I command you to do this thing.