{ "apiVersion": "v1", "kind": "Chapter", "metadata": { "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z", "language": "en", "book": "deuteronomy", "chapter": 24 }, "data": { "n": 24, "bookSlug": "deuteronomy", "bookCode": "DEU", "refId": "", "title": "", "translation": null, "segments": [], "lines": [], "paragraphs": [{ "n": 1, "refId": "DEU-24:1", "verseRef": "Deut.24.1", "text": "When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he hath found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house." },{ "n": 2, "refId": "DEU-24:2", "verseRef": "Deut.24.2", "text": "And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man`s [wife]." },{ "n": 3, "refId": "DEU-24:3", "verseRef": "Deut.24.3", "text": "And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, 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;" },{ "n": 4, "refId": "DEU-24:4", "verseRef": "Deut.24.4", "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 Jehovah: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance." },{ "n": 5, "refId": "DEU-24:5", "verseRef": "Deut.24.5", "text": "When a man taketh a new wife, he shall not go out in the host, neither shall he be charged with any business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he hath taken." },{ "n": 6, "refId": "DEU-24:6", "verseRef": "Deut.24.6", "text": "No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he taketh [a man`s] life to pledge." },{ "n": 7, "refId": "DEU-24:7", "verseRef": "Deut.24.7", "text": "If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and he deal with him as a slave, or sell him; then that thief shall die: so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee." },{ "n": 8, "refId": "DEU-24:8", "verseRef": "Deut.24.8", "text": "Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so ye shall observe to do." },{ "n": 9, "refId": "DEU-24:9", "verseRef": "Deut.24.9", "text": "Remember what Jehovah thy God did unto Miriam, by the way as ye came forth out of Egypt." },{ "n": 10, "refId": "DEU-24:10", "verseRef": "Deut.24.10", "text": "When thou dost lend thy neighbor any manner of loan, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge." },{ "n": 11, "refId": "DEU-24:11", "verseRef": "Deut.24.11", "text": "Thou shalt stand without, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring forth the pledge without unto thee." },{ "n": 12, "refId": "DEU-24:12", "verseRef": "Deut.24.12", "text": "And if he be a poor man, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge;" },{ "n": 13, "refId": "DEU-24:13", "verseRef": "Deut.24.13", "text": "thou shalt surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his garment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before Jehovah thy God." },{ "n": 14, "refId": "DEU-24:14", "verseRef": "Deut.24.14", "text": "Thou shalt not oppress a hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy sojourners that are in thy land within thy gates:" },{ "n": 15, "refId": "DEU-24:15", "verseRef": "Deut.24.15", "text": "in his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto Jehovah, and it be sin unto thee." },{ "n": 16, "refId": "DEU-24:16", "verseRef": "Deut.24.16", "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." },{ "n": 17, "refId": "DEU-24:17", "verseRef": "Deut.24.17", "text": "Thou shalt not wrest the justice [due] to the sojourner, [or] to the fatherless, nor take the widow`s raiment to pledge;" },{ "n": 18, "refId": "DEU-24:18", "verseRef": "Deut.24.18", "text": "but thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and Jehovah thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this thing." },{ "n": 19, "refId": "DEU-24:19", "verseRef": "Deut.24.19", "text": "When thou reapest thy harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the sojourner, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in all the work of thy hands." },{ "n": 20, "refId": "DEU-24:20", "verseRef": "Deut.24.20", "text": "When thou beatest thine olive-tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the sojourner, for the fatherless, and for the widow." },{ "n": 21, "refId": "DEU-24:21", "verseRef": "Deut.24.21", "text": "When thou gatherest [the grapes of] thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it after thee: it shall be for the sojourner, for the fatherless, and for the widow." },{ "n": 22, "refId": "DEU-24:22", "verseRef": "Deut.24.22", "text": "And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this thing." } ] }, "links": { "self": "/v1/library/books/deuteronomy/chapters/24", "book": "/v1/library/books/deuteronomy/", "chapters": "/v1/library/books/deuteronomy/chapters/", "library": "/v1/library/", "schema": "/v1/schema/book/" } }