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title: Joseph Smith Translation (1867 edition)
description: Deuteronomy from the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), 1867 edition.
authors:
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
collections:
  - joseph-smith
tags:
  - translation
published: "1867"
publisher: RLDS Publication Board
publisher_place: Plano, Illinois
publisher_note: "The title page reads: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Joseph Smith, I. L. Rogers, E. Robinson, Publishing Committee; 1867."
edition: First edition (Plano, 1867)
language: en
type: book
chapter: 24
verse_count: 22
reference: "Joseph Smith Jr., *Joseph Smith Translation*, first edition (Plano, IL: RLDS Publication Board, 1867), Deuteronomy, chap. 24, https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  identifier: holyscripturestr00smituoft
  scan: University of Toronto / Trinity College Library copy, Internet Archive
  transcription: "OCR text of the 1867 scans (Toronto copy and a second copy, holyscriptures00smit), reconciled word by word; Romans was also checked against the page images. Method, per-chapter validation log and known limits: docs/jst-1867-import.md."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1867 US publication
  source: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  publication_year: 1867
---

# Deuteronomy 24

*Of divorce, pledges, man-stealers, leprosy, justice, and charity.*

**1** When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her; then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
**2** And when she is departed, out of his house, she may go and be another man's wife.
**3** And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife;
**4** Her former husband which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is denied; for that is abomination before the Lord; and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the Lord thy Godgit thee thee for an inheritance.
**5** When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business; but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.
**6** No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge; for he taketh a man's life to pledge.
**7** If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you.
**8** Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you; as I commanded them, so ye shall observe to do.
**9** Remember what the Lord thy God did unto Miriam by the way, after that ye were come forth out of Egypt.
**10** When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.
**11** Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee.
**12** And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge;
**13** In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee; and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the Lord thy God.
**14** Thou shalt not oppress a hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates;
**15** At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it; lest he cry against thee unto the Lord, and it be sin unto thee.
**16** The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers; every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
**17** Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge;
**18** But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bond man in Egypt, and the Lord thy God redeemed thee thence; therefore I command thee to do this thing.
**19** that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.
**20** When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again; it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
**21** When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it afterward; it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
**22** And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bond man in the land of Egypt; therefore I command thee to do this thing.