| NET Bible | New International Version |
| 1If a man marries a woman and she does not please him because he has found something offensive in her, then he may draw up a divorce document, give it to her, and evict her from his house. | 1If a man marries a woman who becomes displeasing to him because he finds something indecent about her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce, gives it to her and sends her from his house, |
| 2When she has left him she may go and become someone else's wife. | 2and if after she leaves his house she becomes the wife of another man, |
| 3If the second husband rejects her and then divorces her, gives her the papers, and evicts her from his house, or if the second husband who married her dies, | 3and her second husband dislikes her and writes her a certificate of divorce, gives it to her and sends her from his house, or if he dies, |
| 4her first husband who divorced her is not permitted to remarry her after she has become ritually impure, for that is offensive to the LORD. You must not bring guilt on the land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance. | 4then her first husband, who divorced her, is not allowed to marry her again after she has been defiled. That would be detestable in the eyes of the LORD. Do not bring sin upon the land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance. |
| 5When a man is newly married, he need not go into the army nor be obligated in any way; he must be free to stay at home for a full year and bring joy to the wife he has married. | 5If a man has recently married, he must not be sent to war or have any other duty laid on him. For one year he is to be free to stay at home and bring happiness to the wife he has married. |
| 6One must not take either lower or upper millstones as security on a loan, for that is like taking a life itself as security. | 6Do 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 security. |
| 7If a man is found kidnapping a person from among his fellow Israelites, and regards him as mere property and sells him, that kidnapper must die. In this way you will purge evil from among you. | 7If someone is caught kidnapping a fellow Israelite and treating or selling them as a slave, the kidnapper must die. You must purge the evil from among you. |
| 8Be careful during an outbreak of leprosy to follow precisely all that the Levitical priests instruct you; as I have commanded them, so you should do. | 8In cases of defiling skin diseases, be very careful to do exactly as the Levitical priests instruct you. You must follow carefully what I have commanded them. |
| 9Remember what the LORD your God did to Miriam along the way after you left Egypt. | 9Remember what the LORD your God did to Miriam along the way after you came out of Egypt. |
| 10When you make any kind of loan to your neighbor, you may not go into his house to claim what he is offering as security. | 10When you make a loan of any kind to your neighbor, do not go into their house to get what is offered to you as a pledge. |
| 11You must stand outside and the person to whom you are making the loan will bring out to you what he is offering as security. | 11Stay outside and let the neighbor to whom you are making the loan bring the pledge out to you. |
| 12If the person is poor you may not use what he gives you as security for a covering. | 12If the neighbor is poor, do not go to sleep with their pledge in your possession. |
| 13You must by all means return to him at sunset the item he gave you as security so that he may sleep in his outer garment and bless you for it; it will be considered a just deed by the LORD your God. | 13Return their cloak by sunset so that your neighbor may sleep in it. Then they will thank you, and it will be regarded as a righteous act in the sight of the LORD your God. |
| 14You must not oppress a lowly and poor servant, whether one from among your fellow Israelites or from the resident foreigners who are living in your land and villages. | 14Do 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. |
| 15You must pay his wage that very day before the sun sets, for he is poor and his life depends on it. Otherwise he will cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin. | 15Pay them their wages each day before sunset, because they are poor and are counting on it. Otherwise they may cry to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin. |
| 16Fathers must not be put to death for what their children do, nor children for what their fathers do; each must be put to death for his own sin. | 16Parents 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. |
| 17You must not pervert justice due a resident foreigner or an orphan, or take a widow's garment as security for a loan. | 17Do not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, or take the cloak of the widow as a pledge. |
| 18Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and that the LORD your God redeemed you from there; therefore I am commanding you to do all this. | 18Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and the LORD your God redeemed you from there. That is why I command you to do this. |
| 19Whenever you reap your harvest in your field and leave some unraked grain there, you must not return to get it; it should go to the resident foreigner, orphan, and widow so that the LORD your God may bless all the work you do. | 19When you are harvesting in your field and you overlook a sheaf, 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. |
| 20When you beat your olive tree you must not repeat the procedure; the remaining olives belong to the resident foreigner, orphan, and widow. | 20When you beat the olives from your trees, do not go over the branches a second time. Leave what remains for the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow. |
| 21When you gather the grapes of your vineyard you must not do so a second time; they should go to the resident foreigner, orphan, and widow. | 21When 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. |
| 22Remember that you were slaves in the land of Egypt; therefore, I am commanding you to do all this. | 22Remember that you were slaves in Egypt. That is why I command you to do this. |
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