After reading chapter 24:
*More miscellaneous rules and laws:
-A man can give his wife a certificate of divorce and make her leave his house, if he finds something indecent about her. No definition of indecent. There is also no mention of a woman being able to do this, of course. The man owns the house. Anyway, if she gets married again, she becomes "defiled." Then, if the second man divorces her, the first guy is not allowed to remarry her. That would be detestable. However, there appears to be no reason a third guy couldn't have his turn.
-A newlywed man doesn't have to go to war for a year, so he can make his wife happy. (In other words, impregnate her.)
-Millstones cannot be taken as security for a debt because it would deprive the owner of a way to make a living. What do you know, a good rule!
-No kidnapping, enslaving, or selling fellow Israelites on penalty of death. Nothing is said about non-Israelites.
-Obey the Priest's rules about leprous diseases.
-Be considerate to the poor when they are offering a pledge.
-Do not take advantage of hired hands, Israelites or foreigners. Pay their wages on time.
-Children and parents cannot be put to death for each other's sins. Each is to die for his own sin. (If your child works on the sabbath, they die, not you. So, no worries, right?)
-Orphans, widows, and foreigners are to be treated justly.
-When harvesting, don't go back over the fields and vinyards a second time. Leave what was missed for the orphans widows and foreigners to glean.
*Well, some of today's laws weren't as strange or disturbing as usual. In fact many were downright compassionate.
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