These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Deuteronomy 24
Tanakh 22 verses
- 1 When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her, then it cometh to pass, if she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some unseemly thing in her, that he writeth her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house,
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and she departeth out of his house, and goeth and becometh another man’s wife,
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- 3 and the latter husband hateth her, and writeth her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, who took her to be his wife;
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her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before ; and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which thy giveth thee for an inheritance.
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- 5 When a man taketh a new wife, he shall not go out in the host, neither shall he be charged with any business; he shall be free for his house one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he hath taken.
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No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he taketh a man’s life to pledge.
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If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of , and he deal with him as a slave, and sell him; then that thief shall die; so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee.
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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.
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Remember what thy did unto , by the way as ye came forth out of .
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When thou dost lend thy neighbour any manner of loan, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.
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- 11 Thou shalt stand without, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring forth the pledge without unto thee.
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And if he be a poor man, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge;
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thou shalt surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his garment, and thee; and it shall be unto thee before thy .
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Daniel 4:27 Deuteronomy 6:25 Psalm 112:9 Deuteronomy 24:15 Exodus 22:26-27 Ezekiel 18:7 Amos 2:8 Ezekiel 18:16 Job 31:16-20 Deuteronomy 15:9-10 Job 24:7-8 Job 29:11-13 Psalm 106:30-31 James 2:13-23 Isaiah 58:8 Ezekiel 18:12 2 Corinthians 9:13-14 2 Timothy 1:16-18 Ezekiel 33:15 Ephesians 4:26 Genesis 15:6 James 1:27 - 14 Thou shalt not oppress a hired that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates.
- 15 In the same day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his upon it: lest he cry against thee unto and it be sin in thee.
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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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Thou shalt not pervert the justice due to the stranger, or to the fatherless; nor take the widow’s raiment to pledge.
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Deuteronomy 16:19 Deuteronomy 27:19 Exodus 23:6 Exodus 22:21-22 Job 29:11-17 Micah 7:3 Isaiah 1:23 Exodus 23:2 Exodus 23:9 Deuteronomy 1:17 Jeremiah 5:28 Micah 2:1-2 Exodus 22:26-27 Deuteronomy 24:13 Ecclesiastes 5:8 Ezekiel 22:29 Isaiah 33:15 Deuteronomy 10:17-18 James 2:6 Deuteronomy 24:6 Isaiah 3:15 1 Samuel 12:3-4 Jeremiah 22:3 Malachi 3:5 Proverbs 31:5 Ezekiel 22:7 Proverbs 22:22-23 Zechariah 7:10 Psalm 94:20-21 Luke 3:14 Amos 5:7-12 Psalm 82:1-5 Job 22:8-9 Psalm 94:3-6 -
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But thou shalt that thou wast a bondman in , and thy redeemed thee thence; therefore I command thee to do this thing.
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When thou reapest thy harvest in thy field, and hast forgot 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 thy may thee in all the work of thy hands.
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Leviticus 23:22 Leviticus 19:9-10 Deuteronomy 14:29 Proverbs 19:17 Proverbs 11:24-25 Isaiah 58:7-11 Luke 14:13-14 Deuteronomy 26:13 Job 42:12 Psalm 41:1-3 Isaiah 32:8 2 Corinthians 9:6-8 1 John 3:17-19 Proverbs 14:21 Luke 6:38 Psalm 112:9 Luke 6:35 Ruth 2:16 Job 31:16-22 Deuteronomy 15:10 Deuteronomy 24:20-21 -
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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 after thee; it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
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- 22 And thou shalt that thou wast a bondman in the land of ; therefore I command thee to do this thing.