Deuteronomy 24
1And if you should go into the corn field of your neighbor, then you may gather the earswith your hands; but you shall not put the sickle to your neighbor's corn. 2And if you should go into the vineyard of your neighbor, you shall eat grapes sufficientto satisfy your desire; but you may not put them into a vessel. 3And if any one should take a wife, and should dwell with her, then it shall come to passif she should not have found favor before him, because he has found some unbecoming thing in her, thathe shall write for her a bill of divorcement, and give it into her hands, and he shall send her away outof his house. 4Andif she should go away and be married to another man; 5and the last husband should hate her, and write for her a bill of divorcement; and shouldgive it into her hands, and send her away out of his house, and the last husband should die, who tookher to himself for a wife; 6the former husband who sent her away shall not be able to return and take her to himselffor a wife, after she has been defiled; because it is an abomination before the Lord your God, and you⌃shall not defile the land, which the Lord your God gives you to inherit. 7And if any one should have recently taken a wife, he shall not go out to war, neithershall any thing be laid upon him; he shall be free in his house; for one year he shall cheer his wifewhom he has taken. 8You shall not take for a pledge the under millstone, nor the upper millstone; for he whodoes so takes life for a pledge. 9And if a man should be caught stealing one of his brethren of the children of Israel,and having overcome him he should sell him, that thief shall die; so shall you remove that evil one fromyourselves. 10Take heed to yourself inregard of the plague of leprosy: you shall take great heed to do according to all the law,which the priests the Levites shall report to you; take heed to do, as I have charged you. 11Remember all that the Lord your God did to Mariam in the way, when you⌃ were going outof Egypt. 12If your neighbor owe you a debt, any debt whatever, you shall not go into his house totake his pledge: 13you shall stand without, and the man who is in your debt shall bring the pledge out toyou. 14And if the man be poor, you shall not sleep with his pledge. 15You shall surely restore his pledge at sunset, and he shall sleep in his garment, andhe shall bless you; and it shall be mercy to you before the Lord your God. 16You shall not unjustly withhold the wages of the poor and needy of your brethren, orof the strangers who are in your cities. 17You shall pay him his wages the same day, the sun shall not go down upon it, becausehe is poor and he trusts in it; and he shall cry against you to the Lord, and it shall be sin in you. 18The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, and the sons shall not be putto death for the fathers; every one shall be put to death for his own sin. 19You shall not wrest the judgment of the stranger and the fatherless, and widow; you shallnot take the widow's garment for a pledge. 20And you shall remember that you were a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the Lord yourGod redeemed you from thence; therefore I charge you to do this thing. 21And when you shall have reaped corn in your field, and shall have forgotten a sheaf inyour field, you shall not return to take it; it shall be for the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow,that the Lord your God may bless you in all the works of your hands. 22And if you should gather your olives, you shall not return to collect the remainder;it shall be for the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, and you shall remember that you werea bondman in the land of Egypt; therefore I command you to do this thing. And when soever you shall gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not glean whatyou have left; it shall be for the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow: and you shall remember that you were a bondman in the land of Egypt; therefore I commandyou to do this thing.
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