Deuteronomy 24:5-13

English Standard Version

Miscellaneous Laws

⁵^(A)“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 ^(B)to be happy with his wife^[a] 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^(C)“If a man is found stealing one of his brothers of the people of Israel, and if he ^(D)treats him as a slave or sells him, then that thief shall die. ^(E)So you shall purge the evil from your midst.

⁸“Take care, in ^(F)a case of leprous^[b] 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. ⁹Remember what the Lord your God did to ^(G)Miriam ^(H)on 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. ¹¹You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you make the loan shall bring the pledge out to you. ¹²And if he is a poor man, you shall not sleep in his pledge. ¹³^(I)You shall restore to him the pledge as the sun sets, that he may sleep in his cloak and ^(J)bless you. And ^(K)it shall be righteousness for you before the Lord your God.