¹When a man takes a woman and marries her, and it happens that she does not find favor in his eyes, because he has found in her a word of nakedness, and he writes her a document of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her away from his house,

²and she goes out of his house, and goes, and belongs to another man.

³and the last man hates her, and writes her a document of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her away from his house; or if the last man, who took her for himself as a wife, dies.

⁴Her first husband, who sent her away, is not able to return to take her to be his wife, after she has been defiled; for that is an abomination before the face of Yahweh. You will not bring into guilt the land that Yahweh your God is giving you as an inheritance.

⁵When a man takes a new wife, he will not go out with the army, and no word will pass over him; he will be free for his house one year, and will gladden his wife, whom he took.

⁶No one will take as a pledge a hand-mill or an upper millstone, for he is taking a being as a pledge.

⁷When a man is found stealing a being from among his brothers, from the children of Israel, and treats him as a bound sheaf, and sells him, that thief will die; and you will burn out the evil from your midst.

⁸Guard yourself in the plague of leprosy, to keep very carefully and to do according to all that the priests, the Levites, teach you; as I commanded them, you will keep to do.

⁹Remember what Yahweh your God did to Miriam on the way when you came out of Egypt.

¹⁰When you lend your neighbor a loan of anything, you will not go into his house to take his pledge.

¹¹Outside you will stand, and the man to whom you are lending will bring out the pledge to you outside.

¹²And if he is a poor man, you will not lie down in his pledge.

¹³You will surely return the pledge to him as the sun goes in, and he will lie down in his cloak and bless you; and for you it will be righteousness before the face of Yahweh your God.

¹⁴You will not oppress a hired man, poor and needy, whether one of your brothers or one of your sojourners who is in your land, in your gates.

¹⁵On his day you will give his wages, and the sun will not go in over it; for he is poor and he lifts up his being to it; so that he will not call out against you to Yahweh, and it will be a sin in you.

¹⁶Fathers will not be put to death for children; and children will not be put to death for fathers; each man will be put to death for his own sin.

¹⁷You will not bend the justice of a sojourner or a fatherless one, and you will not take as a pledge the garment of a widow.

¹⁸You will remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you from there; therefore I am commanding you to do this word.

¹⁹When you reap your harvest in your field and forget a sheaf in the field, you will not return to take it; it will be for the sojourner, for the fatherless, and for the widow, so that Yahweh your God may bless you in every work of your hands.

²⁰When you beat off your olive tree, you will not go over it behind you; it will be for the sojourner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

²¹When you cut off the grapes of your vineyard, you will not glean behind you; it will be for the sojourner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

²²You will remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt; therefore I am commanding you to do this word.