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“When[a] a man takes a new wife he shall not go out with the army, and he shall not be obligated with anything;[b] he shall be free from obligation, to stay at home[c] for one year, and he shall bring joy to his wife that he took.

“A person[d] shall not take[e] a pair of millstones or an upper millstone, for he is taking necessities of life as a pledge.[f]

“If a man is caught[g] kidnapping somebody from among his countrymen,[h] the Israelites,[i] and he treats him as a slave or he sells him, then that kidnapper shall die, and so you shall purge the evil from among you.[j]

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 24:5 Or “If”
  2. Deuteronomy 24:5 Literally “he shall not come across come over upon him to anything”
  3. Deuteronomy 24:5 Literally “for his house”
  4. Deuteronomy 24:6 Hebrew “he”
  5. Deuteronomy 24:6 Or “require”
  6. Deuteronomy 24:6 Literally “for a life he is taking as a pledge”
  7. Deuteronomy 24:7 Literally “found”
  8. Deuteronomy 24:7 Or “brothers”
  9. Deuteronomy 24:7 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  10. Deuteronomy 24:7 Literally “from your midst”