Deuteronomy 24:1

Moses regulates an existing practice of divorce, requiring a formal certificate when a man dismisses his wife. The law restrains and orders divorce rather than commanding it.

Cross-references · 15

• Matt 19:7–9They asked him, “Why then did Moses command us to give her a bill of divorce, and divorce her?”
• Deut 22:13If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, hates her,
• Isa 50:1Yahweh says, “Where is the bill of your mother’s divorce, with which I have put her away? or to which of my creditors have I sold you? Behold, you were sold for your iniquities, and your mother was put away for your transgressions.
• Mark 10:4–12They said, “Moses allowed a certificate of divorce to be written, and to divorce her.”
• Deut 22:29then the man who lay with her shall give to the lady’s father fifty shekels of silver. She shall be his wife, because he has humbled her. He may not put her away all his days.
• Jer 3:8I saw when, for this very cause, that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorce, yet treacherous Judah, her sister, had no fear; but she also went and played the prostitute.
• Deut 22:19They shall fine him one hundred shekels of silver, and give them to the father of the young lady, because he has given a bad name to a virgin of Israel. She shall be his wife. He may not put her away all his days.
• Deut 24:3If the latter husband hates her, and write her a bill of divorce, and puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, who took her to be his wife;
• Exod 21:10If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights.
• Mal 2:16For I hate divorce”, says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “and him who covers his garment with violence!” says Yahweh of Armies. “Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don’t deal treacherously.
• 1 Cor 7:11–12(but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.
• Matt 5:31–32“It was also said, ‘Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,’
• Matt 1:19Joseph, her husband, being a righteous man, and not willing to make her a public example, intended to put her away secretly.
• Luke 16:18Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.
• Deut 21:15If a man has two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son is hers who was hated;

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