Chapter 24
1If a man takes a woman and marries her, and if she does not find favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, he shall write her a certificate of divorce and put it in her hand and send her out of his house.
2She shall go out from his house and go and become another man's wife.
3If the latter husband hates her and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter husband who took her to be his wife dies,
4her former husband who sent her away may not take her again to be his wife after she has been defiled, for that is an abomination before the LORD, and you shall not bring sin upon the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.
5When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out with the army, nor shall any duty be laid upon him; he shall be free at his house for one year and shall make his wife whom he has taken rejoice.
6No one shall take a millstone or an upper millstone in pledge, for that would be taking a life in pledge.
7If a man is found kidnapping one of his brothers from the sons of Israel, treating him as a slave and selling him, then that thief shall die; so you shall purge the evil from your midst.
8Take care in a case of leprous disease to observe diligently and to do according to all that the Levitical priests instruct you; as I commanded them, so you shall be careful to do.
9Remember what the LORD your God did to Miriam on the way as you came out of Egypt.
10When you make a loan of any kind to your neighbor, you shall not go into his house to take his pledge.
11You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you make the loan shall bring the pledge out to you.
12And if he is a poor man, you shall not sleep in his pledge.
13You shall restore to him the pledge as the sun sets, that he may sleep in his cloak and bless you; and it shall be righteousness for you before the LORD your God.
14You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether one of your brothers or one of the sojourners who are in your land within your gates.
15You shall give him his wages on the same day before the sun sets, because he is poor and counts on it; otherwise he will cry against you to the LORD and it will be sin in you.
16Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor children for their fathers; a man shall be put to death for his own sin.
17You shall not pervert justice due to a sojourner or an orphan, and you shall not take a widow's garment in pledge.
18You shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt and that the LORD your God redeemed you from there; therefore I command you to do this thing.
19When you reap your harvest in your field and forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to take it; it shall be for the sojourner, the orphan, and the widow, that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
20When you beat your olive trees, you shall not go over them afterward; it shall be for the sojourner, the orphan, and the widow.
21When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not glean afterward; it shall be for the sojourner, the orphan, and the widow.
22You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt; therefore I command you to do this thing.
Chapter 25
1If there is a dispute between men and they approach the judges, and the judges judge them and justify the righteous and condemn the wicked,
2If the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall cause him to lie down and be beaten in his presence with a number of stripes according to his guilt.
3Forty stripes may be given him, but not more, lest your brother be degraded in your sight if he is flogged with many stripes beyond these.
4You shall not muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain.
5If brothers dwell together and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead man shall not be married outside the family to a stranger; her husband's brother shall go in to her and take her as his wife and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.
6And the first son whom she bears shall succeed to the name of his dead brother, that his name may not be blotted out of Israel.
7But if the man does not wish to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife shall go up to the gate to the elders and say, My husband's brother refuses to perpetuate his brother's name in Israel; he is not willing to marry me.
8Then the elders of his city shall call him and speak to him, and if he stands and says, I do not wish to take her,
9then his brother's wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders and pull his sandal off his foot and spit in his face and answer and say, So shall it be done to the man who will not build up his brother's house.
10And his name shall be called in Israel The house of him whose sandal was pulled off.
11When men fight with one another and the wife of one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of the one striking him and puts out her hand and seizes him by the private parts,
12then you shall cut off her hand; your eye shall have no pity.
13You shall not have in your bag two kinds of weights, a large and a small.
14You shall not have in your house two kinds of measures, a large and a small.
15A full and just weight you shall have; a full and just measure you shall have, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
16For all who do such things, all who act dishonestly, are an abomination to the LORD your God.
17Remember what Amalek did to you on the way as you came out of Egypt.
18How he attacked you on the way and cut off all the stragglers at your rear when you were faint and weary, and he did not fear God.
19Therefore when the LORD your God has given you rest from all your enemies all around, in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance to possess, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven; you shall not forget.