Chapter 24
1 When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her, then it cometh
to pass, if she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some unseemly
thing in her, that he writeth her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her
hand, and sendeth her out of his house,
2 and she departeth out of his house, and goeth and becometh
another man's wife,
3 and the latter husband hateth her, and writeth her a bill
of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or
if the latter husband die, who took her to be his wife;
4 her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her
again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before
HaShem; and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which HaShem thy G-d giveth
thee for an inheritance.
5 When a man taketh a new wife, he shall not go out in the
host, neither shall he be charged with any business; he shall be free for his
house one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he hath taken.
6 No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to
pledge; for he taketh a man's life to pledge.
7 If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the
children of Israel, and he deal with him as a slave, and sell him; then that
thief shall die; so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee.
8 Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou observe
diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach
you, as I commanded them, so ye shall observe to do.
9 Remember what HaShem thy G-d did unto Miriam, by the way as
ye came forth out of Egypt.
10 When thou dost lend thy neighbour any manner of loan, thou
shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.
11 Thou shalt stand without, and the man to whom thou dost
lend shall bring forth the pledge without unto thee.
12 And if he be a poor man, thou shalt not sleep with his
pledge;
13 thou shalt surely restore to him the pledge when the sun
goeth down, that he may sleep in his garment, and bless thee; and it shall be
righteousness unto thee before HaShem thy G-d.
14 Thou shalt not oppress a hired servant that is poor and
needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land
within thy gates.
15 In the same day thou shalt give him his hire, neither
shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it:
lest he cry against thee unto HaShem and it be sin in thee.
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 pervert the justice due to the stranger, or
to the fatherless; nor take the widow's raiment to pledge.
18 But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt,
and HaShem thy G-d redeemed thee thence; therefore I command thee to do this
thing.
19 When thou reapest thy harvest in thy field, and hast
forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go back to fetch it; it shall be for
the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that HaShem thy G-d may
bless thee in all the work of thy hands.
20 When thou beatest thine olive-tree, thou shalt not go over
the boughs again; it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the
widow.
21 When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt
not glean it after thee; it shall be for the stranger, 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.
Sources: Portions copyright © 1997 by Benyamin Pilant, All Rights Reserved
JPS Electronic Edition, based on the 1917 JPS translation, Copyright © 1998 by Larry Nelson, All Rights Reserved
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