{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/deuteronomy/24","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T11:56:48.881Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"Deuteronomy","bookSlug":"deuteronomy","chapter":24,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":23,"nextChapter":25,"totalChapters":34,"totalVerses":22},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"When a man has taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favor in his eyes, because he has found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's wife."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorce, and gives it in her hand, and sends her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife;"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"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 you shall not cause the land to sin, which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"When a man has 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 has taken."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he takes a man's life to pledge."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"If a man be found stealing any of his brothers of the children of Israel, and makes merchandise of him, or sells him; then that thief shall die; and you shall put evil away from among you."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that you observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so you shall observe to do."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Remember what the LORD your God did to Miriam by the way, after that you were come forth out of Egypt."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"When you do lend your brother any thing, you shall not go into his house to fetch his pledge."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"You shall stand abroad, and the man to whom you do lend shall bring out the pledge abroad to you."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"And if the man be poor, you shall not sleep with his pledge:"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"In any case you shall deliver him the pledge again when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless you: and it shall be righteousness to you before the LORD your God."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"You shall not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of your brothers, or of your strangers that are in your land within your gates:"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"At his day you shall give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor, and sets his heart on it: lest he cry against you to the LORD, and it be sin to you."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"You shall not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"But you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you there: therefore I command you to do this thing."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"When you cut down your harvest in your field, and have forgot a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt: therefore I command you to do this thing."}],"citation":{"inline":"Deuteronomy 24 (AKJV)","markdown":"[Deuteronomy 24](https://primebible.com/akjv/deuteronomy/24)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/deuteronomy/24 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}