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Divorce and Remarriage

24 (A)“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.[a] So he writes out divorce papers, gives them to her, and sends her away from his home. Then suppose she marries another man, and he also decides that he doesn't want her, so he also writes out divorce papers, gives them to her, and sends her away from his home. Or suppose her second husband dies.

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  1. Deuteronomy 24:1 something … like; or that she is guilty of some shameful conduct.

24 If a man marries a woman who becomes displeasing to him(A) because he finds something indecent about her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce,(B) gives it to her and sends her from his house, and if after she leaves his house she becomes the wife of another man, and her second husband dislikes her and writes her a certificate of divorce, gives it to her and sends her from his house, or if he dies,

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