Deuteronomy 24:1-10

Modern English Version

Laws About Marriage and Divorce

24 When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens that she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, then let him write her a bill of divorce and put it in her hand and send her out of his house. ² When she departs out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife. ³ If the second husband rejects her and writes her a bill of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the second husband who took her to be his wife dies, ⁴ her first husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, since she is defiled, for that is abomination before the Lord, and you must not bring sin on the land, which the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance.

⁵ When a man has taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war or be charged with any business; he is to be free at home one year, and must bring joy to his wife which he has taken.

Various Laws

⁶ No man shall take a lower or upper millstone as a pledge, for he would be taking a man’s life as a pledge.

⁷ If a man is found kidnapping any of his brothers of the children of Israel, and makes property of him or sells him, then that kidnapper must die, and you must remove the evil from among you.

⁸ Be careful with an outbreak of leprosy, that you diligently observe and do according to all that the Levitical priests instruct you. As I have commanded them, so you must carefully do. ⁹ Remember what the Lord your God did to Miriam on the way, after you came out of Egypt.

¹⁰ When you do lend your brother anything, you may not go into his house to take his pledge.