Laws about Divorce
Deuteronomy 24When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens that she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found something shameful about her, and he may write her a certificate of divorce, put it in her hand, and send her out of his house. When she has departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife. If the latter husband hates her, and writes her a certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house; or if the latter husband dies, who took her to be his wife; her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife after she is defiled; for that would be an abomination to YHWH. You must not cause the land to sin, which YHWH your God gives you for an inheritance. When a man takes a new wife, he must not go out with the army or he be assigned any duties. He is to be free at home one year and cheer his wife whom he has taken.
Consideration for Others
No man may take the mill or the upper millstone as a pledge, for he takes a life in pledge.
If a man is caught kidnapping one of his brothers of the children of Israel, and he regards him as a slave or sells him, then that kidnapper must die. So you must purge the evil from among you.
You must be careful in the plague of leprosy to diligently observe and do all that the Levitical priests teach y’all. As I commanded them, so y’all must observe to do. Remember what YHWH y’all’s God did to Miriam along the way as y’all came out of Egypt.
When you make any kind of loan to your neighbor, you must not go into his house to take his pledge. You must stand outside, and the man to whom you are making a loan is to bring the pledge outside to you. If he is a poor man, you must not go to sleep with his pledge. You are to retore-restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, so that he may sleep in his garment and bless you. It will be counted as righteousness to you before YHWH your God.
You must not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers or one of the foreigners who are in your land within your gates. You are to give them their wages each day before the sun goes down, for they is poor and have their heart set on it. Otherwise they may cry against you to YHWH, and you will be guilty.
The fathers must not be put to death for their children, nor are the children to be put to death for their fathers. Every person must be put to death for their own sin.
You must not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge; but you are to remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and YHWH your God redeemed you there. Therefore I command you to do this thing.
When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you must not go again to get it. It will be for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, that YHWH your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. When you beat your olive tree, you must not go over the branches again. It will be for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.
When you harvest your vineyard, you must not glean again. It will be for foreigner, for fatherless, and for widow. You are to remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt. Therefore I command you to do this.