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They shall not marry a prostitute or a woman who has been defiled, neither shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband, for the priest is holy to his God.
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A widow, or a divorced woman, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he shall not marry. But he shall take as his wife a virgin of his own people,
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But if a priest's daughter is widowed or divorced and has no child and returns to her father's house, as in her youth, she may eat of her father's food; yet no lay person shall eat of it.
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(But any vow of a widow or of a divorced woman, anything by which she has bound herself, shall stand against her.)
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and they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the father of the young woman, because he has brought a bad name upon a virgin of Israel. And she shall be his wife. He may not divorce her all his days.
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then the man who lay with her shall give to the father of the young woman fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has violated her. He may not divorce her all his days.
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Laws Concerning 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,
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and the latter man hates her and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter man dies, who took her to be his wife,
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Israel's Sin and the Servant's Obedience
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.
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“If a man divorces his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man's wife, will he return to her? Would not that land be greatly polluted? You have played the whore with many lovers; and would you return to me? declares the Lord.
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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.
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They shall not marry a widow or a divorced woman, but only virgins of the offspring of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.
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“For the man who does not love his wife but divorces her, says the Lord, the God of Israel, covers his garment with violence, says the Lord of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless.”
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And her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame, resolved to divorce her quietly.
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Divorce
“It was also said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’
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But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
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Teaching About Divorce
Now when Jesus had finished these sayings, he went away from Galilee and entered the region of Judea beyond the Jordan.
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And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?”
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They said to him, “Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce and to send her away?”
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He said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.
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And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”
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Teaching About Divorce
And he left there and went to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan, and crowds gathered to him again. And again, as was his custom, he taught them.
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And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”
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They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away.”
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And he said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her,
