1 When a man takes a wife and marries
her, then it shall be, if she finds no favor
in his eyes because he has found some
unseemly thing in her, that he shall write
her a certificate of divorce, put it in her
hand, and send her out of his house.

2 When she has departed out of his
house, she may go and be another man’s
wife.

3 If the latter husband hates her, and
writes her a certificate of divorce, puts it in
her hand, and sends her out of his house;
or if the latter husband dies, who took her
to be his wife;

4 her former husband, who sent her
away, may not take her again to be his
wife after she is defiled; for that would be
an abomination to Yahweh. You shall not
cause the land to sin, which Yahweh your
God gives you for an inheritance.

5 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.

6 No man shall take the mill or the upper
millstone as a pledge, for he takes a life in
pledge.

7 If a man is found stealing any of his
brothers of the children of Israel, and he
deals with him as a slave, or sells him, then
thatthief shall die. So you shall remove the
evil from among you.

8 Be careful in the plague of leprosy, that
you observe diligently and do according to
all that the Levitical priests teach you. As I
commanded them, so you shall observe to
do.

9 Remember what Yahweh your God did
to Miriam, by the way as you came out of
Egypt.

10 When you lend your neighbor any
kind ofloan, you shall not go into his house
to get his pledge.

11 You shall stand outside, and the man
to whom you lend shall bring the pledge
outside to you.