Marriage and Divorce Laws
(Matthew 5:31–32; Luke 16:18)
If 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, 1 hand it to her, and send her away from his house. Mat 19:7-9Deu 22:13Isa 50:1Mrk 10:4-12Deu 22:19Deu 22:29Jer 3:8Deu 24:3
If, after leaving his house, she goes and becomes another man’s wife, 1Co 7:15Ezk 44:22Lev 21:14Lev 21:7Lev 22:13Mat 5:32Mrk 10:11Num 30:9 and 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, then 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. Jer 3:1Jos 22:17-18Lev 18:24-28
If 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. Deu 20:7Pro 5:18Gen 2:24Tit 2:4-5Mrk 10:6-9Ecc 9:9Mat 19:4-6Eph 5:28-29
Additional Laws
Do 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. Deu 20:19Luk 12:15Gen 44:30Rev 18:22Exo 22:26-27
If 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. 2 Exo 21:161Ti 1:10Exo 22:1-4Rev 18:13Deu 19:19Ezk 27:13
In cases of infectious skin diseases, 3 be careful to diligently follow everything the Levitical priests instruct you. Be careful to do as I have commanded them. Lev 14:2Lev 13:1-46Lev 13:57Lev 14:9-10Luk 17:14Luk 5:14Mat 8:4Mrk 1:44 Remember what the LORD your God did to Miriam on the journey after you came out of Egypt. Num 12:10-151Co 10:111Co 10:62Ch 26:20-212Ki 7:3Num 5:2Luk 17:32
When you lend anything to your neighbor, do not enter his house to collect security. Deu 15:8Exo 22:27 You are to stand outside while the man to whom you are lending brings the security out to you. If he is a poor man, you must not go to sleep with the security in your possession; Deu 24:17Job 22:6Job 24:3Job 24:9 be 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. Dan 4:27Deu 6:25Exo 22:26-27Deu 24:152Ti 1:16-18Amo 2:8Deu 15:9-10Eph 4:26
Do not oppress a hired hand who is poor and needy, whether he is a brother or a foreigner residing in one of your towns. Mal 3:5Pro 14:31Pro 22:16Amo 4:1Job 24:10-11Amo 2:7Deu 15:12-18Job 31:13-15 You 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. Lev 19:13Jas 5:4Pro 3:27-28Jer 22:13Deu 15:9Exo 22:23-24Job 35:9Job 34:28
Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor children for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin. 4 Ezk 18:202Ch 25:4Jer 31:29-302Ki 14:5-6
Do not deny justice to the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow’s cloak as security. Deu 16:19Deu 27:19Exo 22:21-22Exo 23:6Deu 1:17Exo 23:2Exo 23:9Isa 1:23 Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you from that place. Therefore I am commanding you to do this. Deu 5:15Deu 15:15Deu 16:12Deu 24:22
If 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. Lev 23:22Pro 19:17Lev 19:9-10Deu 14:29Luk 14:13-14Luk 6:382Co 9:6-8Isa 32:8
When 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. Lev 19:10
When 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. Deu 24:19Lev 19:9-10 Remember that you were slaves in the land of Egypt. Therefore I am commanding you to do this. Deu 24:181Jn 4:10-112Co 8:8-9Deu 5:14-15Deu 7:8Eph 5:1-2Isa 51:1