⁷ They said to him, ^(A)“Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce and to send her away?”

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, ² and if she goes and becomes another man's wife, 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, ⁴ then ^(B)her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after she has been defiled, for that is an abomination before the Lord. And you shall not bring sin upon the land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance.

Divorce

^31 (A)“It was also said, ^(B)‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’

⁴ They said, ^(A)“Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away.”

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.”

¹⁹ And her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling ^(A)to put her to shame, resolved to divorce her quietly.

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.

Israel's Sin and the Servant's Obedience