# General Information:

This chapter continues the teaching about how to maintain justice in Israel and also gives limitations regarding the lending of money. Lending money to fellow Israelites was a way to help them out. It was not intended to be a way to make money off their brothers. 

# When a man takes a wife and marries her

"When a man marries a woman" 

# if she finds no favor in his eyes

"if he decides that he does not like her" 

# because he has found something shameful about her

The word translated "shameful" here implies sexual immorality.

# he must write her a certificate of divorce

"he must give his wife an official paper saying that they are not married anymore"