Deuteronomy 24:5-10

Miscellaneous Laws

5 ¹"When a man is newly married, he shall not go out with the army or be liable for any other public duty. He shall be free at home one year ²to be happy with his wife whom he has taken.

6 "No one shall take a mill or an upper millstone in pledge, for that would be taking a life in pledge.

7 ³"If a man is found stealing one of his brothers of the people of Israel, and if he ⁴treats him as a slave or sells him, then that thief shall die. ⁵So you shall purge the evil from your midst.

8 "Take care, in ⁶a case of leprous^[a] disease, to be very careful to do according to all that the Levitical priests shall direct you. As I commanded them, so you shall be careful to do.

9 Remember what the LORD your God did to ⁷Miriam ⁸on the way as you came out of Egypt.

10 "When you make your neighbor a loan of any sort, you shall not go into his house to collect his pledge.

Deuteronomy 24:5-10 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 24

This chapter contains various laws concerning divorces, De 24:1-4; the discharge of a newly married man from war and business, De 24:5; about taking pledges, De 24:6,10-13; man stealing, De 24:7; the plague of leprosy, De 24:8,9; and giving servants their hire in due time, De 24:14,15; concerning doing justice in capital cases, and towards the stranger, fatherless, and widow, De 24:16-18; and of charity to the poor, in allowing them the forgotten sheaf, and the gleanings of their oliveyards and vineyards, De 24:19-22.

Cross References

• 1. [Deuteronomy 20:7]
• 2. Proverbs 5:18
• 3. Exodus 21:16; [1 Timothy 1:10]
• 4. Deuteronomy 21:14
• 5. See Deuteronomy 13:5
• 6. See Lev. 13 - 14
• 7. See Numbers 12:10-15
• 8. Deuteronomy 25:17

Footnotes

• [a]. Leprosy was a term for several skin diseases; see Leviticus 13