24:1 If a man takes a woman as his wife¹³ and it turns out that she does not please him¹⁴ because he has found something offensive¹⁵ in her, then he may draw up a divorce document, give it to her, and expel her from his house. 24:2 When she has left him¹⁶ she may go and become someone else’s wife. 24:3 Should the second¹⁷ husband hate her and then divorce her,¹⁸ give her the papers, and expel her from his house, or if the second husband who took her as wife should die, 24:4 her first husband who divorced her¹⁹ will not be able to return and remarry²⁰ her after she has become ritually impure, for that is detestable to the LORD;²¹ you must not bring sin upon the land²² which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance. 24:5 When a man is newly married,²³ he need not go into the army nor be obligated with anything;²⁴ he must be free to stay at home for a full year and bring joy to²⁵ the wife he has married. 24:6 One should not take either lower or upper millstones as an earnest on a loan for such an earnest is like life itself. 24:7 If a man be found kidnapping a person from among his brothers, fellow Israelites, and should regard him as mere property and sell him, that thief must die; thus you will expunge²⁶ evil from among you.

24:8 Be careful in a leprosy plague to follow precisely¹ all that the Levitical priests instruct you; as I commanded them, so you should do. 24:9 Remember what the LORD your God did to Miriam along the way when you came out of Egypt.² 24:10 When you make any kind of loan to your neighbor you may not go to his house to claim his earnest. 24:11 You must stand outside and the person³ to whom you made the loan will bring the earnest outside to you. 24:12 If the person⁴ is poor you may not use his pledge as a covering.⁵ 24:13 You must by all means return the pledged item to him at sunset so that he might lie in his garment and bless you for it; it will be considered a righteous thing by the LORD your God. 24:14 You must not oppress a lowly and poor servant, whether one from among your fellow Israelites⁶ or from the sojourners who are in your land and villages. 24:15 You must pay his wage that very⁷ day, before the sun sets, for his life depends on it ;⁸ lest he cry out against you to the LORD and it become a sin to you. 24:16 Fathers must not be put to death for children⁹ nor children¹⁰ for fathers; each must be put to death for his own sin. 24:17 You must not pervert justice due a sojourner or orphan; nor take a widow’s garment as a loan pledge. 24:18 Remember that you were a slave in Egypt and that the LORD your God redeemed you from there; therefore, I am commanding you to do all this. 24:19 Whenever you reap your harvest in the field and leave some standing grain there,¹¹ you must not return to get it; it should go to the sojourner, orphan, and widow so that the LORD your God might bless every work you do.¹² 24:20 When you beat your olive tree you must not do so a second time;¹³ the olives belong to the sojourner, orphan, and widow. 24:21 When you gather the grapes of your vineyard you must not do so a second time;¹⁴ they should go to the sojourner, orphan, and widow. 24:22 Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt; therefore, I am commanding you to do all this.