Deuteronomy 24

INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 24

This chapter contains various laws concerning divorces, Deuteronomy 24:1 ; the discharge of a newly married man from war and business, Deuteronomy 24:5 ; about taking pledges, Deuteronomy 24:6 ; man stealing, Deuteronomy 24:7 ; the plague of leprosy, Deuteronomy 24:8 ; and giving servants their hire in due time, Deuteronomy 24:14 ; concerning doing justice in capital cases, and towards the stranger, fatherless, and widow, Deuteronomy 24:16 ; and of charity to the poor, in allowing them the forgotten sheaf, and the gleanings of their oliveyards and vineyards, Deuteronomy 24:19 .