Deuteronomy 24:1

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Hath taken

Deuteronomy 21:15

Deuteronomy 22:13

Exodus 21:10

Then let him

Mark 10:4

Divorcement

Isaiah 50:1

Send her

1 Corinthians 7:11

General references

Mark 10:4

Bible References

Hath taken

“If a man has two wives, the one loved and the other unloved, and both the loved and the unloved have borne him sons, if the firstborn son belongs to the unloved,

“If any man takes a wife and goes in to her and then turns against her,

If he takes to himself another woman, he may not reduce her food, her clothing, or her conjugal rights.

Then let him

and if the latter husband turns against her and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter husband dies who took her to be his wife,

And I saw that for all the adulteries of faithless Israel, I had sent her away and given her a writ of divorce, yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear; but she went and was a harlot also.

“It was said, ‘Whoever sends his wife away, let him give her a certificate of divorce’;

They *said to Him, “Why then did Moses command to give her a certificate of divorce and send her away?”

They said, “Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce and

send her away.”

Divorcement

Thus says the Lord,
“Where is the certificate of divorce
By which I have sent your mother away?
Or to whom of My creditors did I sell you?
Behold, you were sold for your iniquities,
And for your transgressions your mother was sent away.

Send her

and they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give it to the girl’s father, because he publicly defamed a virgin of Israel. And she shall remain his wife; he cannot divorce her all his days.

For I hate

divorce,” says the Lord, the God of Israel, “and him who covers his garment with

wrong,” says the Lord of hosts. “So take heed to your spirit, that you do not deal treacherously.”

And Joseph her husband, being a righteous man and not wanting to disgrace her, planned

to send her away secretly.

“Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.

(but if she does leave, she must remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband should not divorce his wife.

General references

They said, “Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce and

send her away.”