Deuteronomy 24

1 “And if a man takes a wife and lives with her, and then she does not find favor in his eyes, because he has found something shameful in her, then he is to write her a certificate of divorce and put it into her hands and send her away out of his house. [b] 2 And she goes away and becomes another man's wife; 3 and the second husband comes to hate her and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it into her hands and sends her away out of his house — or the second husband, who took her as his wife, dies — 4 then the first husband, who sent her away, is not permitted to come back and take her as his wife after she has been made unclean; because that is a detestable thing before the Lord your God, and you are not to make the land unclean that the Lord your God is giving you to hold. [a]

5 And if a man has recently taken a wife, he is not to go out to war, and nothing is to be laid on him; he is to be free at home for one year, to make his wife glad, the wife he has taken.

6 You are not to take the lower millstone or the upper millstone as security, because whoever does that is taking a life as security. 7 And if a man is caught stealing one of his brothers of the children of Israel, and he overpowers him and sells him, that thief is to die; so you are to burn that evil out from among you. 8 Take care about the mark of leprosy: you are to take great care to do everything according to the law the priests the Levites tell you; take care to do as I have charged you. 9 Remember what the Lord your God did to Miriam on the road when you were coming out of Egypt. [c] 10 If your neighbor owes you a debt, any debt at all, you are not to go into his house to take his security; 11 you are to stand outside, and the man who is in your debt is to bring the security out to you. 12 And if the man is poor, you are not to sleep with his security in your house. 13 You are certainly to give his security back at sunset, and he is to sleep in his own coat and bless you; and it will be counted as mercy in you before the Lord your God.

14 You are not to hold back the wages of the poor and needy unjustly, whether from your own brothers or from the newcomers who are in your towns. 15 You are to pay him his wages the same day, and the sun is not to go down on it — because he is poor and he is counting on it — or he will cry out against you to the Lord, and it will be sin in you. 16 Fathers are not to be put to death for their children, and sons are not to be put to death for their fathers; each one is to be put to death for his own sin. 17 You are not to twist the judgment of the newcomer and the fatherless and the widow, and you are not to take a widow's coat as security. 18 And you are to remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God ransomed you from there; that is why I am charging you to do this thing.

19 And when you have reaped the grain in your field and you have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you are not to go back and get it; it is to be for the poor and the newcomer and the fatherless and the widow — so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the works of your hands. [d] 20 And when you beat your olive trees, you are not to go back over what is left; it is to be for the newcomer and the fatherless and the widow. And you are to remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt; that is why I am commanding you to do this thing. 21 And when you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you are not to go back over what you have left; it is to be for the newcomer and the fatherless and the widow. 22 And you are to remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt; that is why I am commanding you to do this thing.”