Deuteronomy
Chapter 24
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1When a man takes a wife and becomes her husband, and it happens that she does not find favor in his eyes because he has found in her the nakedness of a thing, he shall write her a scroll of cutting off, put it in her hand, and send her from his house.
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Ervat davar is the nakedness of a thing. Sefer keritut is a scroll of cutting off. The line does not add a later name for that scroll.
2She shall go out of his house, go, and become another man’s.
3If the later man hates her and writes her a scroll of cutting off and puts it in her hand and sends her from his house, or if the later man who took her as his wife dies,
4her first husband, who sent her away, shall not be able to take her back to be his wife after she has been made unclean, for that is an Something God hates and will not accept. before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.. You shall not bring offense on the land that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God is giving you as an inheritance.
5When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out with the army, and he shall not pass over to any duty. He shall be free for his house for one year, and he shall make the wife he has taken rejoice.
6No one shall take a mill or an upper millstone in pledge, for he would be taking a life in pledge.
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Rechayim is the mill. Rekhev is the upper stone, the one that rides on the lower. Nefesh is a life.
7If a man is found stealing a life from his brothers, from the sons of Israel, and he treats him as goods and sells him, that thief shall die. You shall burn out the evil from your midst.
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Gonev nefesh is stealing a life, a person. Hit’ammer is to treat him as goods.
8Be on guard against the mark of skin disease, to keep and to do very carefully according to all that the priests, the Levites, direct you. As I commanded them, you shall keep to do.
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Nega ha-tsara’at is the mark of the skin disease. A modern disease name is not printed.
9Remember what God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God did to Miriam on the way, when you came out of Egypt.
10When you lend your neighbor a loan of anything, you shall not go into his house to take his pledge.
11You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you are lending shall bring the pledge out to you.
12If he is a poor man, you shall not lie down in his pledge.
13You shall return, return the pledge to him as the sun comes in, and he shall lie down in his clothing and bless you, and it will be rightness for you before God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God.
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Tzedaqah is rightness, being in the right.
14You shall not oppress a hired worker, poor and needy, whether from your brothers or from your A person living in a land that is not their own. who is in your land, in your gates.
15In his day you shall give his wages, and the sun shall not come in on it, for he is poor, and he lifts his life to it, so that he does not call against you to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. and it become an offense in you.
16Fathers shall not be put to death for sons, and sons shall not be put to death for fathers. A man shall be put to death for his own offense.
17You shall not bend the judgment of a A person living in a land that is not their own. or a fatherless child, and you shall not take a widow’s clothing in pledge.
18You shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God Bought back. you from there. Therefore I am commanding you to do this thing.
19When you reap your harvest in your field and you forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to take it. It shall be for the A person living in a land that is not their own., for the fatherless, and for the widow, so that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God blesses you in all the work of your hands.
20When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the branches after you. It shall be for the A person living in a land that is not their own., for the fatherless, and for the widow.
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Lo tefa’er acharekha is you shall not strip the branches bare behind you.
21When you gather your vineyard, you shall not pick over it after you. It shall be for the A person living in a land that is not their own., for the fatherless, and for the widow.
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Lo te’olel is you shall not go back over the small clusters.
22You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt. Therefore I am commanding you to do this thing.