{"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/web/deuteronomy/24","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-09T23:21:46.114Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","book":"Deuteronomy","bookSlug":"deuteronomy","chapter":24,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":23,"nextChapter":25,"totalChapters":34,"totalVerses":22},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"When a man takes a wife, and marries her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"When she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's [wife]."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"If the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, who took her to be his wife;"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"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 Yahweh: and you shall not cause the land to sin, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be assigned any business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"No man shall take the mill 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 he deal with him as a slave, or sell him; then that thief shall die: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of 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 Yahweh your God did to Miriam, by the way as you came forth out of Egypt."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"When you do lend your neighbor any kind of loan, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you do lend shall bring forth the pledge outside to you."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"If he be a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge;"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"you shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his garment, and bless you: and it shall be righteousness to you before Yahweh your God."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he be of your brothers, or of your foreigners who are in your land within your gates:"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"in 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 Yahweh, 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 wrest the justice [due] to the foreigner, [or] to the fatherless, nor take the widow's clothing to pledge;"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"but you shall remember that you were a bondservant in Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you there: therefore I command you to do this thing."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgot a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that Yahweh 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 foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"When you gather [the grapes of] your vineyard, you shall not glean it after yourselves: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"You shall remember that you were a bondservant in the land of Egypt: therefore I command you to do this thing."}],"citation":{"inline":"Deuteronomy 24 (WEB)","markdown":"[Deuteronomy 24](https://primebible.com/web/deuteronomy/24)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/deuteronomy/24 (accessed 2026-06-09)."}}