<!--more--><div class="scripturelog_navigation"><div> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1000000">Old Testament</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1005051">Deuteronomy</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1005708">Chapter 24</a></div><div><span class="scripturelog_navigation_previous"><a href="?page_id=1005682">&laquo; Previous Chapter</a></span> &bull; <span class="scripturelog_navigation_next"><a href="?page_id=1005731">Next Chapter &raquo;</a></span></div></div><p><em>Second Sermon of Moses to Israel</em></p><p><em>The Deuteronomic Code</em></p><ul class="scripturelog_verse_list"><li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1005709">1</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1005710">2</a>. And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's wife.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1005711">3</a>. 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;</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1005712">4</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1005713">5</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1005714">6</a>. No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1005715">7</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1005716">8</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1005717">9</a>. Remember what the LORD thy God did unto Miriam by the way, after that ye were come forth out of Egypt.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1005718">10</a>. When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1005719">11</a>. Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1005720">12</a>. And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1005721">13</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1005722">14</a>. 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:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1005723">15</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1005724">16</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1005725">17</a>. Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1005726">18</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1005727">19</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1005728">20</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1005729">21</a>. When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1005730">22</a>. And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this thing.</li>
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