關於婚姻的條例
1「如果有人娶妻後，發覺妻子行為不檢，因而嫌棄她，他可以寫休書給她，讓她離開夫家。 2她離開後，可以自由再婚。 3如果她的後夫也嫌棄她，寫休書給她，讓她離開夫家，或者後夫死了， 4前夫不可再娶這已被玷污的女子，因為那是耶和華所憎惡的。你們不可把這種罪惡帶到你們的上帝耶和華將要賜給你們的土地上。
體恤人情
5「不可叫新婚的人從軍出征或辦理公務。他可以留在家裡一年，使新婚的妻子快樂。
6「不可拿別人的磨或磨的上盤作抵押品，因為這等於拿他們的生命作抵押。
7「如果有人綁架自己的同胞，奴役他或賣掉他，必須處死綁架者，除掉你們中間的罪惡。
8「遇到痲瘋病，你們要謹遵利未祭司的指示。你們要謹遵我對他們的吩咐。 9要記住你們離開埃及後，你們的上帝耶和華在米利暗身上的作為。
10「如果你們借貸給同胞，不可走進他家裡索取抵押物； 11要站在外面，等他把抵押物拿出來。 12如果他是窮人，用自己的外袍作抵押，你們不可把他的外袍留到第二天， 13要在當天日落之前還給他，好讓他蓋著外袍睡覺。他會因此祝福你們，你們的上帝耶和華也會將此視為你們的義行。
14「不可欺壓窮苦的雇工，不論他們是你們的同胞，還是住在你們城中的外族人。 15你們要在每天日落前付給他們工錢，因為他們窮苦，靠工錢維生；否則他們向耶和華控訴你們，你們就有罪了。
16「不可因孩子犯罪而處死父親，也不可因父親犯罪而處死孩子。各人要自負罪責。
17「你們要公正地對待寄居者和孤兒，不可拿寡婦的衣物作抵押。 18要記住，你們曾在埃及做過奴隸，你們的上帝耶和華救贖了你們。所以，我吩咐你們這樣行。
19「你們在田間收割莊稼時若遺落了一捆，不可回去取，要留給孤兒寡婦和寄居者。這樣，你們的上帝耶和華必使你們凡事蒙福。 20你們打橄欖時，打過一次後不可再打，要把剩下的留給孤兒寡婦和寄居者。 21你們摘葡萄時，摘過一次後不可再摘，要把剩下的留給孤兒寡婦和寄居者。 22要記住，你們曾在埃及做過奴隸。所以，我吩咐你們這樣行。
1If a man marries a woman who becomes displeasing to him because he finds something indecent about her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce, gives it to her and sends her from his house, 2and if after she leaves his house she becomes the wife of another man, 3and her second husband dislikes her and writes her a certificate of divorce, gives it to her and sends her from his house, or if he dies, 4then her first husband, who divorced her, is not allowed to marry her again after she has been defiled. That would be detestable in the eyes of the Lord. Do not bring sin upon the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.
5If a man has recently married, he must not be sent to war or have any other duty laid on him. For one year he is to be free to stay at home and bring happiness to the wife he has married.
6Do not take a pair of millstones—not even the upper one—as security for a debt, because that would be taking a person’s livelihood as security.
7If someone is caught kidnapping a fellow Israelite and treating or selling them as a slave, the kidnapper must die. You must purge the evil from among you.
8In cases of defiling skin diseases,24:8 The Hebrew word for defiling skin diseases, traditionally translated “leprosy,” was used for various diseases affecting the skin. be very careful to do exactly as the Levitical priests instruct you. You must follow carefully what I have commanded them. 9Remember what the Lord your God did to Miriam along the way after you came out of Egypt.
10When you make a loan of any kind to your neighbor, do not go into their house to get what is offered to you as a pledge. 11Stay outside and let the neighbor to whom you are making the loan bring the pledge out to you. 12If the neighbor is poor, do not go to sleep with their pledge in your possession. 13Return their cloak by sunset so that your neighbor may sleep in it. Then they will thank you, and it will be regarded as a righteous act in the sight of the Lord your God.
14Do not take advantage of a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether that worker is a fellow Israelite or a foreigner residing in one of your towns. 15Pay them their wages each day before sunset, because they are poor and are counting on it. Otherwise they may cry to the Lord against you, and you will be guilty of sin.
16Parents are not to be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their parents; each will die for their own sin.
17Do not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice, or take the cloak of the widow as a pledge. 18Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and the Lord your God redeemed you from there. That is why I command you to do this.
19When you are harvesting in your field and you overlook a sheaf, do not go back to get it. Leave it for the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow, so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. 20When you beat the olives from your trees, do not go over the branches a second time. Leave what remains for the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow. 21When you harvest the grapes in your vineyard, do not go over the vines again. Leave what remains for the foreigner, the fatherless and the widow. 22Remember that you were slaves in Egypt. That is why I command you to do this.
