1 If a man marries a woman but she does not find favor in his eyes because he finds something indecent about her, he may write her a certificate of divorce, give it to her, and send her away from his house.

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

2 When she leaves his house, she may go and become another man's wife.

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

3 If the second man also dislikes her and writes her a certificate of divorce, gives it to her, and sends her away from his house, or if the second man dies,

And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife;

4 then her first husband, who sent her away, is not allowed to take her back to be his wife after she has been defiled. That would be detestable to the LORD. You must not bring guilt upon the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.

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

5 If a man has recently married, he is not to be sent to war or have any duty laid on him. He is to be free to stay at home for one year and bring joy to his wife whom he has married.

When a man hath 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 up his wife which he hath taken.

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 a pledge.

No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge.

7 If someone is caught kidnapping one of their fellow Israelites and treating or selling them as a slave, the kidnapper must die. You must purge the evil from among you.

If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you.

8 Be very careful to follow the instructions regarding serious skin diseases, and do exactly what the Levitical priests teach you. Be sure to do everything I have commanded them.

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

9 Remember what the LORD your God did to Miriam on your journey out of Egypt.

Remember what the LORD thy God did unto Miriam by the way, after that ye were come forth out of Egypt.

10 When you lend your neighbor anything, do not enter their house to take what is offered as a pledge.

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

11 You must wait outside while the person to whom you are lending brings the pledge out to you.

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

12 If the person is poor, do not keep their pledge overnight.

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

13 Return their pledge by sunset so that they may sleep in their own garment and bless you; this will be considered a righteous act before the LORD your God.

In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God.

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.

Thou shalt not oppress an 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:

15 Pay them their wages each day before sunset, because they are poor and depend on it. Otherwise, they may cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.

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

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.

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

17 Do not pervert justice for the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow's garment as security for a pledge.

Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:

18 Remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you from there. That is why I command you to do this.

But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this thing.

19 When you reap your harvest in your field and forget a sheaf there, do not go back to get it. Leave it for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again 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 thine hands.

20 When you beat your olive trees, do not go over the branches again. Leave what remains for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.

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

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

22 Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt. That is why I command you to do this.

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