Deuteronomy:24

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* When a man hath taken a wife , and married her , and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes , because he hath found some uncleanness in her : (note :)By this God does not approve light divorcement , but permits it to avoid further inconvenience ; ( Mat_19:7 ).(:note ) then let him write her a bill of divorcement , and give [it ] in her hand , and send her out of his house . * And when she is departed out of his house , &amp ; gone her way , and marrie with an other man , * And if the latter husband hate her , &amp ; write her a letter of diuorcement , &amp ; put it in her hand , and send her out of his house , or if the latter man die which tooke her to wife : * Her former husband , which sent her away , may not take her again to be his wife , after that she is (note :)Seeing that by divorcing her he judged her to be unclean and defiled .(:note ) defiled ; for that [is ] abomination before the LORD : and thou shalt not cause the land to sin , which the LORD thy God giveth thee [for ] an inheritance . * When a man hath taken a new wife , he shall not go out to war , (note :)That they might learn to know one another 's conditions , and so afterward live in godly peace .(:note ) neither shall he be charged with any business : [but ] he shall be free at home one year , and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken . * No man shall take the nether or the upper (note :)Not anything by which a man gets his living .(:note ) millstone to pledge : for he taketh [a man 's ] life to pledge . * If any man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel , and maketh marchandise of him , or selleth him , that thiefe shal die : so shalt thou put euil away from among you . * Take heede of the plague of leprosie , that thou obserue diligently , and doe according to all that the Priestes of the Leuites shall teach you : take heede ye doe as I commanded them . * Remember what the Lord thy God did vnto Miriam by the way after that ye were come out of Egypt . * When thou dost lend thy brother any thing , thou shalt not go (note :)As though you would appoint what to have , but shall receive what be may spare .(:note ) into his house to fetch his pledge . * But thou shalt stand without , and the man that borowed it of thee , shall bring the pledge out of the doores vnto thee . * Furthermore if it be a poore body , thou shalt not sleepe with his pledge , * In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down , that he may sleep in his own raiment , and bless thee : and it shall be righteousness unto thee (note :)Though he would be unthankful , yet God will not forget it .(:note ) before the LORD thy God . * Thou shalt not oppresse an hyred seruant that is needie and poore , neyther of thy brethren , nor of the stranger that is in thy land within thy gates . * Thou shalt giue him his hire for his day , neither shall the sunne goe downe vpon it : for he is poore , and therewith susteineth his life : lest he crye against thee vnto the Lorde , and it be sinne vnto thee . * The fathers shall not be put to death for the children , nor the children put to death for the fathers , but euery man shalbe put to death for his owne sinne . * Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the (note :)Because the world valued these people least , therefore God has most care over them .(:note ) stranger , [nor ] of the fatherless ; nor take a widow 's raiment to pledge : * But remember that thou wast a seruant in Egypt , and howe the Lorde thy God deliuered thee thence . Therefore I commaund thee to doe this thing . * When thou cuttest downe thine haruest in thy fielde , and hast forgotten a sheafe in the fielde , thou shalt not goe againe to fet it , but it shalbe for the stranger , for the fatherles , &amp ; for the widowe : that the Lorde thy God may blesse thee in all the workes of thine hands . * When thou beatest thine oliue tree , thou shalt not goe ouer the boughes againe , but it shalbe for the stranger , for the fatherlesse , and for the widowe . * When thou gatherest thy vineyard , thou shalt not gather the grapes cleane after thee , but they shalbe for the stranger , for the fatherlesse , and for the widowe . * And thou shalt remember that thou wast (note :)God judged them not mindful of his beasts , unless they were beneficial to others .(:note ) a bondman in the land of Egypt : therefore I command thee to do this thing .

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