{"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/dbt/deuteronomy/24","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-27T04:24:53.691Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DBT","book":"Deuteronomy","bookSlug":"deuteronomy","chapter":24,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":23,"nextChapter":25,"totalChapters":34,"totalVerses":22},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her, it shall be if she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a letter of divorce, and give it into her hand, and send her out of his house."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"And she shall depart out of his house, and go away, and may become another man's wife."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a letter of divorce, and give it into her hand, and send her out of his house; or if the latter husband die who took her as his wife;"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"her first husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for it is an abomination before Jehovah; and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"When a man hath newly taken a wife, he shall not go out with the army, neither shall any kind of business be imposed upon him; he shall be free for his house one year, and shall gladden his wife whom he hath taken."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"No man shall take the hand-mill or the upper millstone in pledge; for it would be taking life in pledge."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"If a man be found who hath stolen one of his brethren of the children of Israel, and who hath treated him as a slave and sold him, that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from thy midst."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou take great heed, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them shall ye take heed to do."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Remember what Jehovah thy God did unto Miriam on the way, after that ye came forth out of Egypt."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"When thou dost lend thy brother anything, thou shalt not go into his house to secure his pledge."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Thou shalt stand outside, and the man to whom thou hast made a loan shall bring out the pledge to thee without."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"And if the man be needy, thou shalt not lie down with his pledge;"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"in any case thou shalt return him the pledge at the going down of the sun, that he may sleep in his own upper garment and bless thee; and it shall be righteousness unto thee before Jehovah thy God."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Thou shalt not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy of thy brethren, or of thy sojourners who are in thy land within thy gates:"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"on his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and his soul yearneth after it; lest he cry against thee to Jehovah, and it be a sin in thee."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"The fathers shall not be put to death for the sons, neither shall the sons be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, or of the fatherless; and thou shalt not take in pledge a widow's garment."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and that Jehovah thy God redeemed thee from thence; therefore I command thee to do this thing."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"When thou reapest thy harvest in thy field, and forgettest a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not return to fetch it; it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in all the work of thy hands."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"When thou shakest thine olive-tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again; it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it afterwards; it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt; therefore I command thee to do this thing."}],"citation":{"inline":"Deuteronomy 24 (DBT)","markdown":"[Deuteronomy 24](https://primebible.com/dbt/deuteronomy/24)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DBT. https://primebible.com/dbt/deuteronomy/24 (accessed 2026-05-27)."}}