Laws of domestic relations

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Deut 24:1: When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
Deut 24:2: And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's wife.
Deut 24:3: And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife;
Deut 24:4: Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.
Deut 24:5: When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.
Deut 24:6: No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge.
Deut 24:7: If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you.
Deut 24:8: 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.
Deut 24:9: Remember what the LORD thy God did unto Miriam by the way, after that ye were come forth out of Egypt.
Deut 24:10: When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.
Deut 24:11: Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee.
Deut 24:12: And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:
Deut 24:13: In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God.