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    Deuteronomy 24

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    The borrower brings the pledge out while the creditor waits at the door, and a poor man’s cloak must be back before sunset. Even the millstone is off limits: a livelihood is not security.

    Household reckoningsvv. 1–9

    A marriage may end with a certificate, a handover, and a departure. If the woman marries again and that marriage also ends, the first husband may not take her back. A newly married man is spared war and every other duty for a year, an unusually domestic exemption granted so that he may stay home and bring joy to his wife. A millstone cannot be taken for a debt, since the pledge would be the means of making a living. Kidnapping an Israelite into slavery or sale brings death to the kidnapper. Skin disease belongs under the careful instruction of the Levitical priests, with Miriam’s fate on the journey from Egypt supplied as the memory behind the warning.

    The pledge at the doorwayvv. 10–18

    A creditor is to remain outside the borrower’s house while the borrower chooses what to bring out. If the borrower is poor, the security must not remain overnight: it is returned by sunset so that he may sleep in his own cloak. A poor hired hand, whether brother or foreigner, is to receive wages the same day, before sunset, because he depends on them. Justice is not to be shifted from father to child, nor withheld from the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. The reason given is a remembered one: slavery in Egypt, and redemption from it.

    The harvest’s deliberate omissionsvv. 19–22

    A forgotten sheaf is to stay forgotten. The harvester does not go back for it, and the same restraint is applied to olive branches and grapevines: what remains is for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow. The command closes where the earlier one did, with slavery in Egypt recalled once more.

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    1. Deut 24:1If a man marries a woman, but she becomes displeasing to him because he finds some indecency in her, he may write her a certificate of divorce, hand it to her, and send her away from his house.

    2. Deut 24:2If, after leaving his house, she goes and becomes another man’s wife,

    3. Deut 24:3and the second man hates her, writes her a certificate of divorce, hands it to her, and sends her away from his house, or if he dies,

    4. Deut 24:4then the husband who divorced her first may not remarry her after she has been defiled, for that is an abomination to the LORD. You must not bring sin upon the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.

    5. Deut 24:5If a man is newly married, he must not be sent to war or be pressed into any duty. For one year he is free to stay at home and bring joy to the wife he has married.

    6. Deut 24:6Do not take a pair of millstones or even an upper millstone as security for a debt, because that would be taking one’s livelihood as security.

    7. Deut 24:7If a man is caught kidnapping one of his Israelite brothers, whether he treats him as a slave or sells him, the kidnapper must die. So you must purge the evil from among you.

    8. Deut 24:8In cases of infectious skin diseases, be careful to diligently follow everything the Levitical priests instruct you. Be careful to do as I have commanded them.

    9. Deut 24:9Remember what the LORD your God did to Miriam on the journey after you came out of Egypt.

    10. Deut 24:10When you lend anything to your neighbor, do not enter his house to collect security.

    11. Deut 24:11You are to stand outside while the man to whom you are lending brings the security out to you.

    12. Deut 24:12If he is a poor man, you must not go to sleep with the security in your possession;

    13. Deut 24:13be sure to return it to him by sunset, so that he may sleep in his own cloak and bless you, and this will be credited to you as righteousness before the LORD your God.

    14. Deut 24:14Do not oppress a hired hand who is poor and needy, whether he is a brother or a foreigner residing in one of your towns.

    15. Deut 24:15You are to pay his wages each day before sunset, because he is poor and depends on them. Otherwise he may cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.

    16. Deut 24:16Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor children for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin.

    17. Deut 24:17Do not deny justice to the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow’s cloak as security.

    18. Deut 24:18Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you from that place. Therefore I am commanding you to do this.

    19. Deut 24:19If you are harvesting in your field and forget a sheaf there, do not go back to get it. It is to be left for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

    20. Deut 24:20When you beat the olives from your trees, you must not go over the branches again. What remains will be for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.

    21. Deut 24:21When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you must not go over the vines again. What remains will be for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.

    22. Deut 24:22Remember that you were slaves in the land of Egypt. Therefore I am commanding you to do this.

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    • 16Ezekiel 18:20The soul who sins is the one who will die. A son will not bear the iniquity of his father, and a father will not bear the iniquity of his son. The righteousness of the righteous man will fall upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked man will fall upon him.
    • 162 Chronicles 25:4Yet he did not put their sons to death, but acted according to what is written in the Law, in the Book of Moses, where the LORD commanded: “Fathers must not be put to death for their children, and children must not be put to death for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin.”
    • 14Malachi 3:5“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.
    • 16Jeremiah 31:29–30“In those days, it will no longer be said: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge.’
    • 14Proverbs 14:31Whoever oppresses the poor taunts their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors Him.
    • 162 Kings 14:5–6As soon as the kingdom was firmly in his grasp, Amaziah executed the servants who had murdered his father the king.
    • 15Leviticus 19:13You must not defraud your neighbor or rob him. You must not withhold until morning the wages due a hired hand.
    • 19Leviticus 23:22When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap all the way to the edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and the foreign resident. I am the LORD your God.’”
    • 14Proverbs 22:16Oppressing the poor to enrich oneself or giving gifts to the rich will surely lead to poverty.
    • 15Proverbs 3:27–28Do not withhold good from the deserving when it is within your power to act.
    • 15James 5:4Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.
    • 19Proverbs 19:17Kindness to the poor is a loan to the LORD, and He will repay the lender.
    • 1Matthew 19:7–9“Why then,” they asked, “did Moses order a man to give his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away?”
    • 7Exodus 21:16Whoever kidnaps another man must be put to death, whether he sells him or the man is found in his possession.
    • 9Numbers 12:10–15As the cloud lifted from above the Tent, suddenly Miriam became leprous, white as snow. Aaron turned toward her, saw that she was leprous,
    • 15Jeremiah 22:13“Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms without justice, who makes his countrymen serve without pay, and fails to pay their wages,

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