24:1 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 ervah (ערוה indecency) in her: then let him write her a sefer keritut (bill of divorcement), and give [it] in her hand, and send her out of his bayit.
24:2 And when she is departed out of his bayit, she may go and be another man's [wife].
24:3 And [if] the latter husband hate her, and write her a sefer keritut (bill of divorcement), and giveth [it] in her hand, and sendeth her out of his bayit; or if the latter husband die, which took her [to be] his wife;
24:4 Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that [is] to'avat (abomination) before YHWH (יהוה): and thou shalt not cause the eretz to sin, which YHWH (יהוה) Eloheicha giveth thee [for] an inheritance.
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.
24:6 No man shall take the handmill or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh [a man's] life to pledge.
24:7 If a man is caught kidnapping any of his achim (brethren) of the benai Yisrael, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you.
24:8 Take heed in the plague of tzara'ath (leprosy), that thou shomer diligently, and do according to all that the Kohenim the Levi'im shall teach you: as I tzavah (commanded) them, [so] ye shall shomer to do.
24:9 Zakar what YHWH (יהוה) Eloheicha did unto Miriam by the way, after that ye were come forth out of Mitzrayim.
24:10 When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his bayit to fetch his pledge.
24:11 Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee.
24:12 And if the man [be] poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:
24:13 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 YHWH (יהוה) Eloheicha.
Thou shalt not oppress an hired eved [that is] poor and needy, [whether he be] of thy achim (brethren), or of thy strangers that [are] in thy eretz within thy she'arim (gates):
24:15 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 YHWH (יהוה), and it be sin unto thee.
24:16 The avot shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the avot: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
24:17 Thou shalt not pervert the mishpat of the stranger, [nor] of the orphan; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:
24:18 But thou shalt Zakar that thou wast a bondman in Mitzrayim, and YHWH (יהוה) Eloheicha redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this thing.
24:19 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 orphan, and for the widow: that YHWH (יהוה) Eloheicha may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.
24:20 When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the orphan, and for the widow.
24:21 When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean [it] afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the orphan, and for the widow.
24:22 And thou shalt Zakar that thou wast a bondman in the eretz Mitzrayim: therefore I command thee to do this thing.