Deuteronomy 24:1
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Laws Concerning Divorce
24 “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 (A)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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Matthew 19:7-9
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7 They said to him, (A)“Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce and to send her away?” 8 He said to them, “Because of your (B)hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. 9 (C)And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”[a]
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- Matthew 19:9 Some manuscripts add and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery; other manuscripts except for sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery
Deuteronomy 22:13
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Laws Concerning Sexual Immorality
13 “If any man takes a wife and (A)goes in to her and then hates her
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Deuteronomy 22:19
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19 and they shall fine him a hundred shekels[a] of silver and give them to the father of the young woman, because he has brought a bad name upon a virgin[b] of Israel. And she shall be his wife. (A)He may not divorce her all his days.
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- Deuteronomy 22:19 A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams
- Deuteronomy 22:19 Or girl of marriageable age
Mark 10:4-12
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4 They said, (A)“Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away.” 5 And Jesus said to them, “Because of your (B)hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. 6 But (C)from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them (D)male and female.’ 7 (E)‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife,[a] 8 and (F)the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. 9 (G)What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
10 And in the house the disciples asked him again about this matter. 11 And he said to them, (H)“Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her, 12 and (I)if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”
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- Mark 10:7 Some manuscripts omit and hold fast to his wife
Jeremiah 3:8
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8 She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, (A)I had sent her away with (B)a decree of divorce. (C)Yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she too went (D)and played the whore.
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Isaiah 50:1
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Israel's Sin and the Servant's Obedience
50 Thus says the Lord:
“Where is (A)your mother's certificate of divorce,
with which (B)I sent her away?
Or (C)which of my creditors is it
to whom I have sold you?
(D)Behold, for your iniquities you were sold,
and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.
Deuteronomy 22:29
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29 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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Exodus 21:10
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10 If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or (A)her marital rights.
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Deuteronomy 24:3
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3 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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1 Corinthians 7:11-12
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11 (but if she does, (A)she should remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and (B)the husband should not divorce his wife.
12 To the rest I say (I, not the Lord) that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not divorce her.
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Luke 16:18
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Divorce and Remarriage
18 (A)“Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.
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Matthew 5:31-32
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Divorce
31 (A)“It was also said, (B)‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’ 32 (C)But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and (D)whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
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Matthew 1:19
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19 And her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling (A)to put her to shame, resolved to divorce her quietly.
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Malachi 2:16
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16 “For (A)the man who does not love his wife but divorces her,[a] says the Lord, the God of Israel, covers[b] his garment with violence, says the Lord of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and (B)do not be faithless.”
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- Malachi 2:16 Hebrew who hates and divorces
- Malachi 2:16 Probable meaning (compare Septuagint and Deuteronomy 24:1–4); or “The Lord, the God of Israel, says that he hates divorce, and him who covers
Deuteronomy 21:15
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Inheritance Rights of the Firstborn
15 “If a man has two wives, (A)the one loved and the other unloved, and both the loved and the unloved have borne him children, and if the firstborn son belongs to the unloved,[a]
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- Deuteronomy 21:15 Or hated; also verses 16, 17
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