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Deuteronomy 24 Brenton's Septuagint Translation
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<A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/24-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><font color=blue>(24:5)</font> and the last husband should hate her, and write for her a bill of divorcement; and should give it into her hands, and send her away out of his house, and the last husband should die, who took her to himself for a wife; <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/24-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><font color=blue>(24:6)</font> the former husband who sent her away shall not be able to return and take her to himself for a wife, after she has been defiled; because it is an abomination before the Lord thy God, and ye shall not defile the land, which the Lord thy God gives thee to inherit.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/24-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><font color=blue>(24:7)</font> And if any one should have recently taken a wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall any thing be laid upon him; he shall be free in his house; for one year he shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.<p> <A name="7"></a><p class="hdg">Additional Laws<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/24-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><font color=blue>(24:8)</font> Thou shalt not take for a pledge the under millstone, nor the upper millstone; for he who does so takes life for a pledge.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/24-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><font color=blue>(24:9)</font> And if a man should be caught stealing one of his brethren of the children of Israel, and having overcome him he should sell him, that thief shall die; so shalt thou remove that evil one from yourselves.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/24-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><font color=blue>(24:10)</font> Take heed to thyself in <i>regard of</i> the plague of leprosy: thou shalt take great heed to do according to all the law, which the priests the Levites shall report to you; take heed to do, as I have charged you. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/24-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><font color=blue>(24:11)</font> Remember all that the Lord thy God did to Mariam in the way, when ye were going out of Egypt.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/24-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><font color=blue>(24:12)</font> If thy neighbour owe thee a debt, any debt whatsoever, thou shalt not go into his house to take his pledge: <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/24-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><font color=blue>(24:13)</font> thou shalt stand without, and the man who is in thy debt shall bring the pledge out to thee. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/24-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><font color=blue>(24:14)</font> And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/24-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><font color=blue>(24:15)</font> Thou shalt surely restore his pledge at sunset, and he shall sleep in his garment, and he shall bless thee; and it shall be mercy to thee before the Lord thy God.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/24-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><font color=blue>(24:16)</font> Thou shalt not unjustly withhold the wages of the poor and needy of thy brethren, or of the strangers who are in thy cities. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/24-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><font color=blue>(24:17)</font> Thou shalt pay him his wages the same day, the sun shall not go down upon it, because he is poor and he trusts in it; and he shall cry against thee to the Lord, and it shall be sin in thee.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/24-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><font color=blue>(24:18)</font> The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, and the sons shall not be put to death for the fathers; every one shall be put to death for his own sin.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/24-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><font color=blue>(24:19)</font> Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of the stranger and the fatherless, and widow; thou shalt not take the widow's garment for a pledge. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/24-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><font color=blue>(24:20)</font> And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the Lord thy God redeemed thee from thence; therefore I charge thee to do this thing.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/24-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><font color=blue>(24:21)</font> And when thou shalt have reaped corn in thy field, and shalt have forgotten a sheaf in thy field, thou shalt not return to take it; it shall be for the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the works of thy hands. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/24-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><font color=blue>(24:22)</font> And if thou shouldest gather thine olives, thou shalt not return to collect the remainder; it shall be for the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, and thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt; therefore I command thee to do this thing.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/24-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><font color=blue>(24:23)</font> And when soever thou shalt gather the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean what thou hast left; it shall be for the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow: <span class="reftext"><a href="/deuteronomy/24-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><font color=blue>(24:24)</font> and thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt; therefore I command thee to do this thing.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../deuteronomy/23.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Deuteronomy 23"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Deuteronomy 23" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../deuteronomy/25.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Deuteronomy 25"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Deuteronomy 25" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>