Statutes About Divorce

24 “If a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens ^[a]that she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some ^(A)indecency in her, and ^(B)he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out from his house, ² and she goes out of his house and goes and becomes another man’s wife, ³ and if the latter husband ^[b]turns against 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 husband dies who took her to be his wife, ⁴ then her ^(C)former husband who sent her away is not allowed to take her again to be his wife, since she has been defiled; for that is an abomination before Yahweh, and you shall not bring sin on the land which Yahweh your God gives you as an inheritance.

³¹ “Now it was said, ‘^(A)Whoever sends his wife away, let him give her a certificate of divorce’;