24 If a man marries a woman who becomes displeasing to him^(A) because he finds something indecent about her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce,^(B) gives it to her and sends her from his house, ² and if after she leaves his house she becomes the wife of another man, ³ and her second husband dislikes her and writes her a certificate of divorce, gives it to her and sends her from his house, or if he dies, ⁴ then her first husband, who divorced her, is not allowed to marry her again after she has been defiled. That would be detestable in the eyes of the Lord. Do not bring sin upon the land the Lord^(C) your God is giving you as an inheritance.

⁵ If a man has recently married, he must not be sent to war or have any other duty laid on him. For one year he is to be free to stay at home and bring happiness to the wife he has married.^(D)

⁶ Do not take a pair of millstones—not even the upper one—as security for a debt, because that would be taking a person’s livelihood as security.^(E)

⁷ If someone is caught kidnapping a fellow Israelite and treating or selling them as a slave, the kidnapper must die.^(F) You must purge the evil from among you.^(G)

⁸ In cases of defiling skin diseases,^[a] be very careful to do exactly as the Levitical^(H) priests instruct you. You must follow carefully what I have commanded them.^{(I) 9} Remember what the Lord your God did to Miriam along the way after you came out of Egypt.^(J)

¹⁰ When you make a loan of any kind to your neighbor, do not go into their house to get what is offered to you as a pledge.^{(K) 11} Stay outside and let the neighbor to whom you are making the loan bring the pledge out to you. ¹² If the neighbor is poor, do not go to sleep with their pledge^(L) in your possession. ¹³ Return their cloak by sunset^(M) so that your neighbor may sleep in it.^(N) Then they will thank you, and it will be regarded as a righteous act in the sight of the Lord your God.^(O)

¹⁴ Do not take advantage of a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether that worker is a fellow Israelite or a foreigner residing in one of your towns.^{(P) 15} Pay them their wages each day before sunset, because they are poor^(Q) and are counting on it.^(R) Otherwise they may cry to the Lord against you, and you will be guilty of sin.^(S)

¹⁶ Parents are not to be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their parents; each will die for their own sin.^(T)

¹⁷ Do not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless^(U) of justice,^(V) or take the cloak of the widow as a pledge. ¹⁸ Remember that you were slaves in Egypt^(W) and the Lord your God redeemed you from there. That is why I command you to do this.

¹⁹ When you are harvesting in your field and you overlook a sheaf, do not go back to get it.^(X) Leave it for the foreigner,^(Y) the fatherless and the widow,^(Z) so that the Lord your God may bless^(AA) you in all the work of your hands. ²⁰ When you beat the olives from your trees, do not go over the branches a second time.^(AB) Leave what remains for the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow. ²¹ When you harvest the grapes in your vineyard, do not go over the vines again. Leave what remains for the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow. ²² Remember that you were slaves in Egypt. That is why I command you to do this.^(AC)

25 When people have a dispute, they are to take it to court and the judges^(AD) will decide the case,^(AE) acquitting^(AF) the innocent and condemning the guilty.^{(AG) 2} If the guilty person deserves to be beaten,^(AH) the judge shall make them lie down and have them flogged in his presence with the number of lashes the crime deserves, ³ but the judge must not impose more than forty lashes.^(AI) If the guilty party is flogged more than that, your fellow Israelite will be degraded in your eyes.^(AJ)

⁴ Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.^(AK)

The Transfiguration^(A)(B)

17 After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James and John^(C) the brother of James, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. ² There he was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and his clothes became as white as the light. ³ Just then there appeared before them Moses and Elijah, talking with Jesus.

⁴ Peter said to Jesus, “Lord, it is good for us to be here. If you wish, I will put up three shelters—one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah.”

⁵ While he was still speaking, a bright cloud covered them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.^(D) Listen to him!”^(E)

⁶ When the disciples heard this, they fell facedown to the ground, terrified. ⁷ But Jesus came and touched them. “Get up,” he said. “Don’t be afraid.”^{(F) 8} When they looked up, they saw no one except Jesus.

⁹ As they were coming down the mountain, Jesus instructed them, “Don’t tell anyone^(G) what you have seen, until the Son of Man^(H) has been raised from the dead.”^(I)

¹⁰ The disciples asked him, “Why then do the teachers of the law say that Elijah must come first?”

¹¹ Jesus replied, “To be sure, Elijah comes and will restore all things.^{(J) 12} But I tell you, Elijah has already come,^(K) and they did not recognize him, but have done to him everything they wished.^(L) In the same way the Son of Man is going to suffer^(M) at their hands.” ¹³ Then the disciples understood that he was talking to them about John the Baptist.^(N)