The Book of Deuteronomy is the fifth book of the Torah (Pentateuch) and is recognized as canonical by all major Christian traditions and by Judaism. The English title derives from the Greek 'Deuteronomion', meaning 'second law', reflecting the reaffirmation and expansion of the law given at Sinai. The Hebrew name 'Devarim' means 'words'. The book consists of three discourses by Moses to the children of Israel in the plains of Moab, before they entered the Promised Land, reviewing the history of the desert wandering and reiterating the covenant with God.
Deuteronomy
Chapter 24
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, give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
When she has departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's wife.
If the latter husband hates her, and writes her a certificate of divorce, gives it in her hand, and sends her out of his house; or if the latter husband dies who took her to be his wife,
then her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is an abomination to the LORD. You shall not cause the land to sin, which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance.
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.
No one shall take a mill or an upper millstone in pledge, for he would be taking a life in pledge.
If a man is found stealing any of his brothers of the children of Israel, and he treats him as a slave or sells him, then that thief shall die. So you shall remove the evil from among you.
Be careful in the plague of leprosy, that you observe diligently and do according to all that the priests the Levites teach you. As I commanded them, so you shall be careful to do.
Remember what the LORD your God did to Miriam, by the way as you came out of Egypt.
When you lend your neighbor any kind of loan, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge.
You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you lend shall bring the pledge out to you.
If he is a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge.
You shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may sleep in his garment and bless you. It shall be righteousness to you before the LORD your God.
You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is of your brothers or of your foreigners who are in your land within your gates.
In his day you shall give him his wages, 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.
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.
You shall not deny justice to the foreigner or to the fatherless, nor take a widow's clothing in pledge;
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.
When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgotten 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 the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the branches again. It shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
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.
You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt. Therefore I command you to do this thing.