Deuteronomy · Updated Brenton English Septuagint
Deuteronomy 24 Updated Brenton English Septuagint
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- Same Septuagint text as Brenton, with modernised spelling.
1 And if anyone should take a wife, and should dwell with her, then it shall come to pass if she should not have found favor before him, because he has found some unbecoming thing in her, that he shall write for her a bill of divorcement, and give it into her hands, and he shall send her away out of his house.
1 When a man takes a wife and marries her, then it shall be, if she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a certificate of divorce, put it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
2 And [if] she should go away and be married to another man;
2 When she has departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife.
3 and the last husband should hate her, and write for her a bill of divorcement; and should give it into her hands, and send her away out of his house, and the last husband should die, who took her to himself for a wife;
3 If the latter husband hates her, and writes her a certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house; or if the latter husband dies, who took her to be his wife;
4 the former husband who sent her away shall not be able to return and take her to himself for a wife, after she has been defiled; because it is an abomination before the Lord thy God, and ye shall not defile the land, which the Lord thy God gives thee to inherit.
4 her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife after she is defiled; for that would be an abomination to Yahweh. You shall not cause the land to sin, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.
5 And if anyone should have recently taken a wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall anything be laid upon him; he shall be free in his house; for one year he shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.
5 When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be assigned any business. He shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.
6 Thou shalt not take for a pledge the under millstone, nor the upper millstone; for he who does so takes life for a pledge.
6 No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone as a pledge, for he takes a life in pledge.
7 And 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 shalt thou remove that evil one from yourselves.
7 If a man is found stealing any of his brothers of the children of Israel, and he deals with him as a slave, or sells him, then that thief shall die. So you shall remove the evil from among you.
8 Take heed to thyself in [regard of] the plague of leprosy: thou shalt 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.
8 Be careful in the plague of leprosy, that you observe diligently and do according to all that the Levitical priests teach you. As I commanded them, so you shall observe to do.
9 Remember all that the Lord thy God did to Miriam in the way, when ye were going out of Egypt.
9 Remember what Yahweh your God did to Miriam, by the way as you came out of Egypt.
10 If thy neighbor owe thee a debt, any debt whatsoever, thou shalt not go into his house to take his pledge:
10 When you lend your neighbor any kind of loan, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge.
11 thou shalt stand without, and the man who is in thy debt shall bring the pledge out to thee.
11 You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you lend shall bring the pledge outside to you.
12 And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge.
12 If he is a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge.
13 Thou shalt surely restore his pledge at sunset, and he shall sleep in his garment, and he shall bless thee; and it shall be mercy to thee before the Lord thy God.
13 You shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his garment and bless you. It shall be righteousness to you before Yahweh your God.
14 Thou shalt not unjustly withhold the wages of the poor and needy of thy brethren, or of the strangers who are in thy cities.
14 You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers or one of the foreigners who are in your land within your gates.
15 Thou shalt pay him his wages the same day, the sun shall not go down upon it, because he is poor and he trusts in it; and he shall cry against thee to the Lord, and it shall be sin in thee.
15 In his day you shall give him his wages, neither shall the sun go down on it, for he is poor and sets his heart on it, lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you.
16 The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, and the sons shall not be put to death for the fathers; every one shall be put to death for his own sin.
16 The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers. Every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
17 Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of the stranger and the fatherless, and widow; thou shalt not take the widow’s garment for a pledge.
17 You shall not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge;
18 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the Lord thy God redeemed thee from thence; therefore I charge thee to do this thing.
18 but you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you there. Therefore I command you to do this thing.
19 And when thou shalt have reaped corn in thy field, and shalt have forgotten a sheaf in thy field, thou shalt not return to take it; it shall be for the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the works of thy hands.
19 When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow, that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
20 And if thou shouldest gather thine olives, thou shalt not return to collect the remainder; it shall be for the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, and thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt; therefore I command thee to do this thing.
20 When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
21 And whensoever thou shalt gather the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean what thou hast left; it shall be for the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow:
21 When you harvest your vineyard, you shall not glean it after yourselves. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
22 and thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt; therefore I command thee to do this thing.
22 You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt. Therefore I command you to do this thing.
Cross references (20)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Matthew 19:7–9; Isaiah 50:1; Deuteronomy 22:13; Mark 10:4–12; Jeremiah 3:8
- 2 Matthew 5:32; Numbers 30:9; Leviticus 21:7; Leviticus 22:13; Leviticus 21:14
- 4 Jeremiah 3:1
- 5 Proverbs 5:18; Deuteronomy 20:7; Genesis 2:24; Titus 2:4–5; Mark 10:6–9
- 6 Deuteronomy 20:19; Luke 12:15; Revelation 18:22; Genesis 44:30; Exodus 22:26–27
- 7 Exodus 21:16; 1 Timothy 1:10; Revelation 18:13; Exodus 22:1–4; Ezekiel 27:13
- 8 Leviticus 14:2; Mark 1:44; Matthew 8:4; Leviticus 13:57; Luke 5:14
- 9 Numbers 12:10–15; 1 Corinthians 10:11; 1 Corinthians 10:6; 2 Chronicles 26:20–21; Numbers 5:2
- 10 Deuteronomy 15:8; Exodus 22:27
- 12 Deuteronomy 24:17
- 13 Deuteronomy 6:25; Daniel 4:27; Exodus 22:26–27; Deuteronomy 24:15; Psalm 112:9
- 14 Malachi 3:5; Proverbs 14:31; Proverbs 22:16; Job 24:10–11; Amos 4:1
- 15 Leviticus 19:13; Proverbs 3:27–28; James 5:4; Jeremiah 22:13; Deuteronomy 15:9
- 16 Ezekiel 18:20; 2 Chronicles 25:4; Jeremiah 31:29–30; 2 Kings 14:5–6
- 17 Deuteronomy 16:19; Exodus 23:6; Exodus 22:21–22; Deuteronomy 27:19; Exodus 23:9
- 18 Deuteronomy 5:15; Deuteronomy 15:15; Deuteronomy 24:22; Deuteronomy 16:12
- 19 Leviticus 23:22; Proverbs 19:17; Leviticus 19:9–10; Luke 14:13–14; Deuteronomy 14:29
- 20 Leviticus 19:10
- 21 Deuteronomy 24:19; Leviticus 19:9–10
- 22 Deuteronomy 24:18; Deuteronomy 7:8; Deuteronomy 5:14–15; Ephesians 5:1–2; 2 Corinthians 8:8–9
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
And what is this? There was an ancient law made, that he who hated his wife, for whatever kind of cause, should not be forbidden to cast her out, and to bring home another instead of her.
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