Deuteronomy 24 · Parashat Ki Teitzei

When a man has taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he has found some unseemliness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife.

And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house; or if the latter husband, who took her to be his wife, should die,

then her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after she is defiled; for that is abomination before the Lord: and thou shalt not cause the land to be sinful, which the Lord thy God gives thee for an inheritance.

When a man has taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.

No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone for a pledge: for he takes a man’s life for a pledge.

If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Yisra᾽el and deals with him as a slave, or sells him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you.

Take heed in the plague of żara῾at, that thou observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so you shall observe to do.

Remember what the Lord thy God did to Miryam by the way, after you were come out of Miżrayim.

When thou dost lend thy brother anything, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.

Thou shalt stand outside, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge to thee.

And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:

thou shalt surely deliver him the pledge again when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his own garment, and bless thee: and it shall be as righteousness to thee before the Lord thy God.

Thou shalt not oppress a hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates.

At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and sets his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee to the Lord, and it be sin in thee.

Fathers shall not be put to death for children, neither shall children be put to death for fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, or of the fatherless; nor take a widow’s garment as a pledge:

but thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Miżrayim, and the Lord thy God redeemed thee from there: therefore I command thee to do this thing.

When thou reapest thy harvest in thy field, and hast forgotten a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go back to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thy hands.

When thou beatest thy olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it afterwards; it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

And thou shalt remember that thou wast a slave in the land of Miżrayim: therefore I command thee to do this thing.