Deuteronomy 24:1-10

1 "When a man takes a wife and he marries her {and then} {she does not please him}, because he found {something objectionable} and writes her a letter of divorce and puts [it] in her hand and sends her [away] from his house,
2 and she goes from his house, and she goes [out] and becomes [a wife] {for another man},
3 and [then] the second man dislikes her and he writes her a letter of divorce and places [it] into her hand and sends her from his house, or if the second man dies who took her {to himself} as a wife,
4 her first husband who sent her [away] is not allowed {to take her again} to become a wife to him after she has {been defiled}, for that [is] a detestable thing {before} Yahweh, and [so] you shall not mislead into sin the land that Yahweh your God [is] giving to you [as an] inheritance.
5 "When a man takes a new wife he shall not go out with the army, and {he shall not be obligated with anything}; he shall be free from obligation, {to stay at home} for one year, and he shall bring joy [to] his wife that he took.
6 "A person shall not take a pair of millstones or an upper millstone, for {he is taking necessities of life as a pledge}.
7 "If a man is {caught} kidnapping somebody from [among] his countrymen, the {Israelites}, and he treats him as a slave or he sells him, then that kidnapper shall die, and [so] you shall purge the evil {from among you}.
8 Be watchful {with respect to} [an] outbreak of [any] infectious skin disease, by being very careful and by acting according to all that the priests and the Levites have instructed you, [just] as I have commanded them, {so you shall diligently observe}.
9 [So] remember what Yahweh your God did to Miriam on the journey {when you went out from Egypt}.
10 "When you make a loan to your neighbor, a loan of any kind, you shall not go into his house {to take his pledge}.

Footnotes 25

  • [a]. Or "If"
  • [b]. Literally "and it will happen"
  • [c]. Literally "if not she finds favor in his eyes"
  • [d]. Literally "shameful/repulsive thing"
  • [e]. Literally "for a man other"
  • [f]. Literally "to for him"
  • [g]. Literally "to return to take her"
  • [h]. Literally "become unclean"
  • [i]. Literally "to the face of"
  • [j]. Or "If"
  • [k]. Literally "he shall not come across [come over] upon him to anything"
  • [l]. Literally "for his house"
  • [m]. Hebrew "he"
  • [n]. Or "require"
  • [o]. Literally "for a life [he] is taking as a pledge"
  • [p]. Literally "found"
  • [q]. Or "brothers"
  • [r]. Literally "sons/children of Israel"
  • [s]. Literally "from your midst"
  • [t]. Or "Be careful"
  • [u]. Literally "against"
  • [v]. Or "doing"
  • [w]. Literally "[so] you shall observe to do"
  • [x]. Literally "in you to go out from Egypt"
  • [y]. Literally "to pledge [with respect to] his pledge"
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