1 ¶ When a man takes a wife, and marries her, if she then finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and place it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

2 After she has departed from his house, she may marry another man.

3 But if the latter husband dislikes her, and writes her a bill of divorcement, and places it in her hand, and sends her out of his house; or if the latter husband dies, after taking her to be his wife;

4 Her former husband, who sent her away, may not again take her to be his wife, after she has been defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD: and you must not bring such guilt upon the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.

5 ¶ When a man is newly married, he shall not go out to war, nor shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer the wife which he has taken.

6 No man shall take the lower or the upper millstone in pledge for a debt: for he would be taking a man’s life in pledge.

7 If a man is found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and treats him as a slave, or sells him; then that thief shall die; thus you shall purge the evil away from among you.

8 Take heed during an attack of leprosy, that you diligently observe, and do everything that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so you shall observe to do.

9 Remember what the LORD your God did to Miriam along the way, after you came out of Egypt.

10 When you lend anything to your brother, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge.

11 You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you are lending shall bring the pledge out to you.

12 And if the man is poor, you shall not keep his pledge overnight:

13 You shall surely return the pledge to him again when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his own garment, and bless you: and it shall be righteousness to you before the LORD your God.

14 ¶ You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brethren, or one of the strangers that are in your land within your towns:

15 You shall pay him his wage on the day that he earns it, before the sun goes down; for he is poor, and depends on it: lest he cry to the LORD against you, and it is sin to you.

16 Fathers should not be put to death for their children, nor should children be put to death for their fathers: every man should be put to death for his own sin.

17 You must not deny justice to a foreigner, or to the fatherless; or take a widow’s garment as a pledge:

18 But you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you from there: therefore I command you to do this.

19 When you reap the harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

20 When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again: what remains shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

21 When you gather the grapes from your vineyard, you shall not glean it afterward: what remains shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

22 And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt: therefore I command you to do this thing.