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a man marries a woman, but she becomes displeasing to him because he finds something indecent about her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house, 2 and she leaves his house and goes off and becomes another man’s wife, 3 and if her second husband comes to dislike her, writes her a certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house, or if he dies, 4 then her first husband, who sent her away, is not allowed to take her back again to be his wife after she has been defiled. That is detestable to the Lord, and you must not bring sin on the land that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.
5 “When a man is newly married, he must not be sent out with the army or have any other duty laid on him. He will be free at home for one year, so that he can bring happiness to the wife he has married.
6 “No one shall take a hand mill or an upper millstone in pledge, for he would be taking a man’s life in pledge.
7 “If a man is caught kidnapping one of his Israelite brothers, whether he treats him like a slave or sells him, then that kidnapper must die. You must purge the evil from among you.
8 “Take heed in an infection of leprosy, so that you carefully observe everything that the Levitical priests instruct you to do. You must be careful to do what I have commanded them. 9 Remember what the Lord your God did to Miriam along the way after you came out of Egypt.
10 “When you make a loan of any kind to your neighbour, you are not go into his house to get what he is offering as a pledge. 11 You must stand outside, and the man to whom you make the loan is to bring the pledge out to you. 12 If the man is poor, you must not retain his pledge overnight. 13 You must return the pledge to him by sunset, so that he may sleep in the cloak and bless you, and it will be credited to you as a righteous act before the Lord your God.
14 “You must not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers or an alien living in your land in one of your cities. 15 You are to pay him his wages each day before the sun sets, for he is poor and counting on it. Otherwise he will cry to the Lord against you, and you will be guilty of sin.
16 “fathers shall not to put to death for their children, nor shall children be to put to death for their fathers; each man is to be put to death for his own sin.
17 “You must not deprive the justice due to a resident foreigner or an orphan, and do not take a widow’s garment as a pledge. 18 Remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and the Lord your God redeemed you from there. Therefore I am commanding you to do this.
19 “When you reap the harvest in your field, and you overlook a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it; it shall be left for the alien, the orphan, and for the widow, so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. 20 When you beat your olive trees, you shall not go over the branches again. It shall be left for the alien, the orphan, and the widow.
21 “When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not glean what is left; it shall be for the alien, the orphan, and the widow. 22 Remember that you were a slave into the land of Egypt; therefore I am commanded you to do this.”