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

When there shall be to a man two wives, the one loved and the one hated, and they bare sons to him, the loved and the hated, and the first-born son was to her being hated:

If any man shall take a wife, and went in to her and hated her,

If he shall take to him another, her food and her covering and her cohabitation he shall not take away.

Then let him

And the last man hated her and wrote for her a writing of cutting off, and gave in her hand, and sent her away from his house; or if the last man shall die which took her to him for a wife,

And I shall see for all the causes that Israel turning away committed adultery, I sent her away and I shall give a writing of her cutting off to her; and her faithless sister Judah was not afraid, and she will go and commit fornication, she also.

And it was said, That whosoever should loose his wife, let him give her a repudiation.

They say to him, Why then did Moses charge to give a writing of divorce, and loose her?

And they said, Moses permitted to write a bill of divorce, and to loose.

Divorcement

Thus said Jehovah, Where this writing of cutting off of your mother which I sent her away? or which of my creditors whom I sold you to him? Behold, in your iniquities ye sold yourselves, and in your transgressions your mother was sent away.

Send her

And they amerced him a hundred of silver, and gave to the father of the maiden, for he brought out an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be to him for a wife; he shall not be able to send her away all his days.

For he hated sending away, says Jehovah God of Israel: and he covered violence with his clothing, said Jehovah of armies: and ye watched in your spirit, and ye shall not deal faithlessly.

And Joseph her husband being just, and not willing to expose her to disgrace, wished to let her go in secret.

Every one loosing his wife, and marrying another, commits adultery: and every one marrying her having been loosed from the husband commits adultery.

And if also she be separated, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to the husband: and the husband not to send away the wife.

General references

And they said, Moses permitted to write a bill of divorce, and to loose.