24 DEBARIM - DEUTERONOMY 24

Of Divorce

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  1     ?  When a man has taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he has 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.

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

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  3    And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and gives it in her hand, and sends her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife;

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  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 YAHWEH: and you shall not cause the land to sin, which YAHWEH your ABBA gives you for an inheritance.

Of New-Married Persons, Of Man-Stealers, Of Pledges

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  5     ?  When a man has 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 has taken.

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  6    No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he takes a man's life to pledge.

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  7    If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Yisrael, and makes merchandise of him, or sells him; then that thief shall die; and you shall put evil away from among you.

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  8    Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that you observe diligently, and do according to all that the kohenim the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so you shall observe to do.

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  9    Remember what YAHWEH your ABBA did unto Miriam by the way, after that you were come forth out of Egypt.

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

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  11    You shall stand abroad, and the man to whom you do lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto you.

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  12    And if the man be poor, you shall not sleep with his pledge:

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  13    In any case you shall deliver him the pledge again when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless you: and it shall be righteousness unto you before YAHWEH your ABBA.

Of Justice And Generosity

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  14     ?  You shall not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of your brethren, or of your strangers that are in your land within your gates:

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  15    At his day you shall give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and sets his heart upon it: lest he cry against you unto YAHWEH, and it be sin unto you.

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  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.

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  17    You shall not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:

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  18    But you shall remember that you were a bondman in Egypt, and YAHWEH your ABBA redeemed you thence: therefore I command you to do this thing.

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  19    When you cuttest down your harvest in your field, and has forgot a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that YAHWEH your ABBA may bless you in all the work of your hands.

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  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.

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  21    When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

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  22    And you shall remember that you were a bondman in the land of Egypt: therefore I command you to do this thing.