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Text -- Deuteronomy 24:1-10 (NET)
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Context
24:1 If a man marries a woman and she does not please him because he has found something offensive in her, then he may draw up a divorce document , give it to her, and evict her from his house .
24:2 When she has left him she may go and become someone else’s wife.
24:3 If the second husband rejects her and then divorces her, gives her the papers , and evicts her from his house , or if the second husband who married her dies ,
24:4 her first husband who divorced her is not permitted to remarry her after she has become ritually impure , for that is offensive to the Lord . You must not bring guilt on the land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance .
24:5 When a man is newly married , he need not go into the army nor be obligated in any way ; he must be free to stay at home for a full year and bring joy to the wife he has married .
24:6 One must not take either lower or upper millstones as security on a loan, for that is like taking a life itself as security .
24:7 If a man is found kidnapping a person from among his fellow Israelites , and regards him as mere property and sells him, that kidnapper must die . In this way you will purge evil from among you.
Respect for Human Dignity
24:8 Be careful during an outbreak of leprosy to follow precisely all that the Levitical priests instruct you; as I have commanded them, so you should do .
24:9 Remember what the Lord your God did to Miriam along the way after you left Egypt .
24:10 When you make any kind of loan to your neighbor , you may not go into his house to claim what he is offering as security .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Divorce |
Moses |
LAW OF MOSES |
Marriage |
LAW IN THE OLD TESTAMENT |
DIVORCE IN THE NEW TESTAMENT |
POOR |
Pledge |
Mill |
RIGHTEOUSNESS |
HAMMURABI, CODE OF |
Lending |
Debt |
Creditor |
WRITING, 2 |
Miriam |
WITNESS |
DIVORCE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT |
Husband |
Abomination |
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NET Notes: Deu 24:5 For the MT’s reading Piel שִׂמַּח (simmakh, “bring joy to”), the Syriac and others read ...
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NET Notes: Deu 24:6 Taking millstones as security on a loan would amount to taking the owner’s own life in pledge, since the millstones were the owner’s means...
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NET Notes: Deu 24:9 What the Lord your God did to Miriam. The reference is to Miriam’s having contracted leprosy because of her intemperate challenge to Moses’...
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