6 Bible Verses about Bills Of Divorce

"When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, and she departs out of his house,

"It was also said, 'Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.'

They said to him, "Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce and to send her away?"

They said, "Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away."

She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, I had sent her away with a decree of divorce. Yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she too went and played the whore.

Thus says the LORD: "Where is your mother's certificate of divorce, with which I sent her away? Or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities you were sold, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.