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Dabariym 24

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24:1

The Laws of the Household, Pledges, and Gleanings

When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favor 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.
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And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's wife.
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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;
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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 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 thy Alahiym giveth thee for an inheritance.
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The Protection of the New Household

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.
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The Sanctity of the Life-Source

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

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

Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Lawiytes shall teach you: as I commanded them, so ye shall observe to do.
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Remember what 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 thy Alahiym did unto Miryam by the way, after that ye were come forth out of Mitzrayim.
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The Dignity of the Debtor

When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.
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Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee.
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And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:
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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 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 thy Alahiym.
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The Prompt Wage of the Servant

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:
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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 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, and it be sin unto thee.
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The Law of Individual Culpability

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.
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The Justice for the Marginalized

Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:
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But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Mitzrayim, and 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 thy Alahiym redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this thing.
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The Agricultural Economy of Grace

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 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 thy Alahiym may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.
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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.
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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.
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And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Mitzrayim: therefore I command thee to do this thing.