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New Living Translation (NLT)

Deuteronomy 24
⁵ “A newly married man must not be drafted into the army or be given any other official responsibilities. He must be free to spend one year at home, bringing happiness to the wife he has married.
⁶ “It is wrong to take a set of millstones, or even just the upper millstone, as security for a loan, for the owner uses it to make a living.
⁷ “If anyone kidnaps a fellow Israelite and treats him as a slave or sells him, the kidnapper must die. In this way, you will purge the evil from among you.
⁸ “In all cases involving serious skin diseases, be careful to follow the instructions of the Levitical priests; obey all the commands I have given them.
⁹ Remember what the LORD your God did to Miriam as you were coming from Egypt.
¹⁰ “If you lend anything to your neighbor, do not enter his house to pick up the item he is giving as security.
¹¹ You must wait outside while he goes in and brings it out to you.
¹² If your neighbor is poor and gives you his cloak as security for a loan, do not keep the cloak overnight.
¹³ Return the cloak to its owner by sunset so he can stay warm through the night and bless you, and the LORD your God will count you as righteous.
¹⁴ “Never take advantage of poor and destitute laborers, whether they are fellow Israelites or foreigners living in your towns.
¹⁵ You must pay them their wages each day before sunset because they are poor and are counting on it. If you don’t, they might cry out to the LORD against you, and it would be counted against you as sin.