24:1   "When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens that she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out from his house,

24:2  and she leaves his house and goes and becomes another man's wife,

24:3   and if the latter husband turns against her and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter husband dies who took her as his wife,

24:4  then her former husband who sent her away cannot take her again for his wife, since she has become defiled; for that constitutes an abomination before the LORD, and you shall not bring sin on the land which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance.

24:5  " When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out with the army nor become charged with any duty; he shall remain free at home one year and shall give happiness to his wife whom he has taken.

24:6   "No one shall take a handmill or an upper millstone in pledge, for he would take a life in pledge.

24:7   " If you catch a man kidnapping any of his countrymen of the sons of Israel, and he deals with him violently or sells him, then that thief shall die; so you shall purge the evil from among you.

24:8   " Take care against an infection of leprosy, that you diligently observe and do according to all that the Levitical priests teach you; as I have commanded them, so you shall carefully do.

24:9   "Remember what the LORD your God did to Miriam on the way as you came out of Egypt.

24:10   " When you make your neighbor a loan of any sort, you shall not enter his house to take his pledge.

24:11   "You shall remain outside, and the man to whom you make the loan shall bring the pledge out to you.

24:12   "If he proves a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge.

24:13   " When the sun goes down you shall surely return the pledge to him, that he may sleep in his cloak and bless you; and the Lord your God will regard you as righteous.

24:14   " You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he comes from your country or one of your aliens who lives in your land in your towns.

24:15   " You shall give him his wages on his day before the sun sets, for he has become poor and sets his heart on it; so that he will not cry against you to the LORD and it become sin in you.

24:16   " Fathers shall not receive the death penalty for their sons, nor shall sons receive the death penalty for their fathers; everyone shall suffer death for his own sin.

24:17   " You shall not pervert the justice due an alien or an orphan, nor take a widow's garment in pledge.

24:18   "But you shall remember that you served as a slave in Egypt, and that the LORD your God redeemed you from there; therefore I command you to do this thing.

24:19  " When you reap your harvest in your field and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it; it shall remain for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow, in order that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

24:20   " When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again; it shall remain for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow.

24:21   "When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not go over it again; it shall remain for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow.

24:22   "You shall remember that you formerly served as a slave in the land of Egypt; therefore I command you to do this thing.