"It was also said, 'If any man puts away his wife, let him give her a written notice of divorce.'

Here a Canaanitish woman of the district came out and persistently cried out, "Sir, Son of David, pity me; my daughter is cruelly harassed by a demon."

"Why then," said they, "did Moses command the husband to give her 'a written notice of divorce,' and so put her away?"

But of this be assured, that if the master of the house had known the hour at which the robber was coming, he would have kept awake, and not have allowed his house to be broken into.