Deuteronomy · Berean Standard Bible
Deuteronomy 24 Berean Standard Bible
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1 If a man marries a woman, but she becomes displeasing to him because he finds some indecency in her, he may write her a certificate of divorce, hand it to her, and send her away from 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 If, after leaving his house, she goes and becomes another man’s wife,
2 When she has departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife.
3 and the second man hates her, writes her a certificate of divorce, hands it to her, and sends her away from his house, or if he dies,
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 then the husband who divorced her first may not remarry her after she has been defiled, for that is an abomination to the LORD. You must not bring sin upon the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.
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 If a man is newly married, he must not be sent to war or be pressed into any duty. For one year he is free to stay at home and bring joy to the wife he has married.
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 Do not take a pair of millstones or even an upper millstone as security for a debt, because that would be taking one’s livelihood as security.
6 No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone as a pledge, for he takes a life in pledge.
7 If a man is caught kidnapping one of his Israelite brothers, whether he treats him as a slave or sells him, the kidnapper must die. So you must purge the evil from among you.
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 In cases of infectious skin diseases, be careful to diligently follow everything the Levitical priests instruct you. Be careful to do as I have commanded them.
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 what the LORD your God did to Miriam on the journey after you came out of Egypt.
9 Remember what Yahweh your God did to Miriam, by the way as you came out of Egypt.
10 When you lend anything to your neighbor, do not enter his house to collect security.
10 When you lend your neighbor any kind of loan, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge.
11 You are to stand outside while the man to whom you are lending brings the security out to you.
11 You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you lend shall bring the pledge outside to you.
12 If he is a poor man, you must not go to sleep with the security in your possession;
12 If he is a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge.
13 be sure to return it to him by sunset, so that he may sleep in his own cloak and bless you, and this will be credited to you as righteousness before the LORD your 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 Do not oppress a hired hand who is poor and needy, whether he is a brother or a foreigner residing in one of your towns.
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 You are to pay his wages each day before sunset, because he is poor and depends on them. Otherwise he may cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.
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 Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor children for their fathers; each is to die 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 Do not deny justice to the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow’s cloak as security.
17 You shall not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge;
18 Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you from that place. Therefore I am commanding you to do this.
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 If you are harvesting in your field and forget a sheaf there, do not go back to get it. It is to be left for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your 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 When you beat the olives from your trees, you must not go over the branches again. What remains will be for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.
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 When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you must not go over the vines again. What remains will be for the foreigner, the fatherless, 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 Remember that you were slaves in the land of Egypt. Therefore I am commanding you to do this.
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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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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