דברים כ״ד

A man takes a woman [into his household] and becomes her husband. She fails to please him because he finds something obnoxious about her, and he writes her a bill of divorcement, hands it to her, and sends her away from his house; she leaves his household and becomes the wife of another man; then this latter man rejects her, writes her a bill of divorcement, hands it to her, and sends her away from his household; or the man who married her last dies. Then the first husband who divorced her shall not take her to wife again, since she has been disqualified for him^adisqualified for him Lit. “defiled.”—for that would be abhorrent to GOD. You must not bring sin upon the land that the ETERNAL your God is giving you as a heritage. When a man has taken a bride, he shall not go out with the army or be assigned to it for any purpose; he shall be exempt one year for the sake of his household, to give happiness to the woman he has married. A hand mill or an upper millstone shall not be taken in pawn, for that would be taking someone’s life in pawn. If anyone is found to have kidnapped—and then enslaved or sold—a fellow Israelite, that kidnapper shall die; thus you will sweep out evil from your midst. In cases of a skin affection^bskin affection Cf. Lev. 13.1ff. be most careful to do exactly as the levitical priests instruct you. Take care to do as I have commanded them. Remember what the ETERNAL your God did to Miriam on the journey after you left Egypt.^cdid to Miriam … after you left Egypt See Num. 12.10ff. When you make a loan of any sort to your compatriot, you must not enter the house to seize the pledge. You must remain outside, while the party to whom you made the loan brings the pledge out to you. And if they are needy, you shall not go to sleep in their pledge; you must return the pledge at sundown, that they may sleep in their cloth and bless you; and it will be to your merit before the ETERNAL your God. You shall not abuse a needy and destitute laborer, whether a fellow Israelite or a stranger in one of the communities of your land. You must pay out the wages due on the same day, before the sun sets, for they are needy and urgently depend on it; else a cry to GOD will be issued against you and you will incur guilt. Parents shall not be put to death for children, nor children be put to death for parents: they shall be put to death only for their own crime. You shall not subvert the rights of the stranger or the fatherless; you shall not take a widow’s garment in pawn. Remember that you were a slave in Egypt and that the ETERNAL your God redeemed you from there; therefore do I enjoin you to observe this commandment. When you reap the harvest in your field and overlook a sheaf in the field, do not turn back to get it; it shall go to the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow—in order that the ETERNAL your God may bless you in all your undertakings. When you beat down the fruit of your olive trees, do not go over them again; that shall go to the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow. When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, do not pick it over again; that shall go to the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow. Always remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt; therefore do I enjoin you to observe this commandment.