1 W hen a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her, it shall be if she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a letter of divorce, and give it into her hand, and send her out of his house.

2 A nd she shall depart out of his house, and go away, and may become another man's wife.

3 A nd if the latter husband hate her, and write her a letter of divorce, and give it into her hand, and send her out of his house; or if the latter husband die who took her as his wife;

4 h er first husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for it is an abomination before Jehovah; and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.

5 W hen a man hath newly taken a wife, he shall not go out with the army, neither shall any kind of business be imposed upon him; he shall be free for his house one year, and shall gladden his wife whom he hath taken.

6 N o man shall take the hand-mill or the upper millstone in pledge; for it would be taking life in pledge.

7 I f a man be found who hath stolen one of his brethren of the children of Israel, and who hath treated him as a slave and sold him, that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from thy midst.

8 T ake heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou take great heed, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them shall ye take heed to do.

9 R emember what Jehovah thy God did unto Miriam on the way, after that ye came forth out of Egypt.

10 W hen thou dost lend thy brother anything, thou shalt not go into his house to secure his pledge.

11 T hou shalt stand outside, and the man to whom thou hast made a loan shall bring out the pledge to thee without.

12 A nd if the man be needy, thou shalt not lie down with his pledge;

13 i n any case thou shalt return him the pledge at the going down of the sun, that he may sleep in his own upper garment and bless thee; and it shall be righteousness unto thee before Jehovah thy God.

14 T hou shalt not oppress a hired servant poor and needy of thy brethren, or of thy sojourners who are in thy land within thy gates:

15 o n his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and his soul yearneth after it; lest he cry against thee to Jehovah, and it be a sin in thee.

16 T he fathers shall not be put to death for the sons, neither shall the sons be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

17 T hou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, of the fatherless; and thou shalt not take in pledge a widow's garment.

18 A nd thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and that Jehovah thy God redeemed thee from thence; therefore I command thee to do this thing.

19 W hen thou reapest thy harvest in thy field, and forgettest a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not return to fetch it; it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in all the work of thy hands.

20 W hen thou shakest thine olive-tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again; it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

21 W hen thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it afterwards; it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

22 A nd thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt; therefore I command thee to do this thing.