1. “Suppose a man takes a wife and marries her. Now if she doesn’t find favor in his eyes because he has found something indecent in her, he is to write her a certificate of divorce, hand it to her and send her out from his house.
2. When she leaves his house, she may go and become another man’s wife.
3. Now suppose the second husband dislikes her and writes her a certificate of divorce, and he hands it to her and she leaves his house—or suppose the second husband who took her to be his wife dies.
4. Then her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after she has been defiled—for that would be detestable before Adonai. You are not to bring guilt on the land that Adonai your God is giving you as an inheritance.
5. “When a man takes a new wife, he is not to go out with the army or have any duty passed over to him. He is to be free at home for one year and make his wife happy.
6. “No one is to take a pair of millstones or the upper one as collateral, for this would be taking a livelihood as collateral.
7. “If a man is caught kidnapping any of his brothers from Bnei-Yisrael, whether he treats him like property or sells him, then that kidnapper must die. So you are to purge the evil from your midst.
8. “Take care in the plague of tza'arat—be very careful to do all that the Levitical kohanim instruct you, just as I commanded them, so you are to take care to do.
9. Remember what Adonai your God did to Miriam, along the way when you were coming out from Egypt.
10. “When you make any kind of loan to your neighbor, you are not to go into his house to get his pledge.
11. You are to stand outside, and the man to whom you are making the loan is to bring the pledge outside to you.