Deuteronomy 24:1
Good News Translation
"Suppose a man marries a woman and later decides that he doesn't want her, because he finds something about her that he doesn't like. So he writes out divorce papers, gives them to her, and sends her away from his home.

New Revised Standard Version
Suppose a man enters into marriage with a woman, but she does not please him because he finds something objectionable about her, and so he writes her a certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house; she then leaves his house

Contemporary English Version
Suppose a woman was divorced by her first husband because he found something disgraceful about her. He wrote out divorce papers, gave them to her, and sent her away.

New American Bible
When a man, after marrying a woman, is later displeased with her because he finds in her something indecent, and he writes out a bill of divorce and hands it to her, thus dismissing her from his house,

Douay-Rheims Bible
If a man take a wife, and have her, and she find not favour in his eyes, for some uncleanness: he shall write a bill of divorce, and shall give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If a man take a wife, and have her, and she find not favour in his eyes, for some uncleanness: he shall write a bill of divorce, and shall give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

hath taken

Deuteronomy 21:15 If a man have two wives, one beloved, and the other hated, and they have had children by him, and the son of the hated be the firstborn,

Deuteronomy 22:13 If a man marry a wife, and afterwards hate her,

Exodus 21:10 And if he take another wife for him, he shall provide her a marriage, and raiment, neither shall he refuse the price of her chastity.

uncleanness [heb] matter of nakedness

Deuteronomy 24:3 And he also hateth her, and hath given her a bill of divorce, and hath sent her out of his house or is dead:

Jeremiah 3:8 That because the rebellious Israel had played the harlot, I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce: yet her treacherous sister Juda was not afraid, but went and played the harlot also herself.

Matthew 5:31,32 And it hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a bill of divorce. . . .

Matthew 19:7-9 They say to him: Why then did Moses command to give a bill of divorce, and to put away? . . .

Mark 10:4-12 Who said: Moses permitted to write a bill of divorce and to put her away. . . .

divorcement [heb] cutting off

Isaiah 50:1 Thus saith the Lord: What is this bill of the divorce of your mother, with which I have put her away? or who is my creditor, to whom I sold you: behold you are sold for your iniquities, and for your wicked deeds have I put your mother away.

send her

Deuteronomy 22:19,29 Condemning him besides in a hundred sicles of silver, which he shall give to the damsel's father, because he hath defamed by a very ill name a virgin of Israel: and he shall have her to wife, and may not put her away all the days of his life. . . .

Malachi 2:16 When thou shalt hate her put her away, saith the Lord, the God of Israel: but iniquity shalt cover his garment, saith the Lord of hosts, keep your spirit, and despise not.

Matthew 1:19 Whereupon Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing publicly to expose her, was minded to put her away privately.

Luke 1:18 And Zachary said to the angel: Whereby shall I know this? For I am an old man, and my wife is advanced in years.

1 Corinthians 7:11,12 And if she depart, that she remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband. And let not the husband put away his wife. . . .

Context
Law of Divorce
1If a man take a wife, and have her, and she find not favour in his eyes, for some uncleanness: he shall write a bill of divorce, and shall give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.2And when she is departed, and marrieth another husband,…
Cross References
Matthew 1:19
Whereupon Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing publicly to expose her, was minded to put her away privately.

Matthew 5:31
And it hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a bill of divorce.

Matthew 19:7
They say to him: Why then did Moses command to give a bill of divorce, and to put away?

Mark 10:4
Who said: Moses permitted to write a bill of divorce and to put her away.

Mark 10:5
To whom Jesus answering, said: Because of the hardness of your heart, he wrote you that precept.

Numbers 5:12
Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: The man whose wife shall have gone astray, and contemning her husband,

Numbers 5:28
But if she be not defiled, she shall not be hurt, and shall bear children.

Deuteronomy 22:13
If a man marry a wife, and afterwards hate her,

Deuteronomy 24:2
And when she is departed, and marrieth another husband,

Isaiah 50:1
Thus saith the Lord: What is this bill of the divorce of your mother, with which I have put her away? or who is my creditor, to whom I sold you: behold you are sold for your iniquities, and for your wicked deeds have I put your mother away.

Jeremiah 3:1
It is commonly said: If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and marry another man, shall he return to her any more? shall not that woman be polluted, and defiled? but thou hast prostituted thyself to many lovers: nevertheless return to me, saith the Lord, and I will receive thee.

Jeremiah 3:8
That because the rebellious Israel had played the harlot, I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce: yet her treacherous sister Juda was not afraid, but went and played the harlot also herself.

Malachi 2:16
When thou shalt hate her put her away, saith the Lord, the God of Israel: but iniquity shalt cover his garment, saith the Lord of hosts, keep your spirit, and despise not.

Deuteronomy 23:25
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