Deuteronomy 24

Deuteronomy 24:1

Because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorce.

If a man shall find any foul or shameful matter in the behaviour of his wife, or any intolerable imperfection in her body, a divorce in such case is, for the hardness of your hearts, tolerated; which divorce is to be signified by a formal writing, to that purpose.

Deuteronomy 24:6

For he taketh a man’s life to pledge.

For that, which he taketh to pledge, is a necessary instrument of preparing that bread, whereby man’s life is sustained.

Deuteronomy 24:15

He setteth his heart upon it.

He maketh account of it, as the means of his livelihood.

Deuteronomy 24:16

The father shall not be put to death for the children, &c.

However the magistrate may deal in case of mulets and forfeitures, yet he may not inflict death upon the child for the father’s offence, nor on the father for the crime of the child.