1: 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: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand,
and send her out of his house. |
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2: And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another
man's wife. |
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And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of
divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if
the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife; |
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4: Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be
his wife, after that she is 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. |
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5: When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, 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. |
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6: No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he
taketh a man's life to pledge. |
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7: If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of
Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall
die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you. |
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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. |
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9: Remember what the LORD thy God did unto Miriam by the way, after that
ye were come forth out of Egypt. |
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10: When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his
house to fetch his pledge. |
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11: Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall
bring out the pledge abroad unto thee. |
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12: And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:
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13: 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 before the LORD thy God. |
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14: Thou shalt not oppress an 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: |
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15: At his 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 the LORD, and it be sin unto thee. |
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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. |
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17: Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the
fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge: |
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18: But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and the
LORD thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this thing.
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19: When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a
sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the
stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless
thee in all the work of thine hands. |
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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. |
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21: When thou therest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean
it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the
widow. |
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22: And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of
Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this thing. |