Deuteronomy 24:1
If a man take a wife, and have her, and she find not favour in his eyes, for some uncleanness: he shall write a bill of divorce, and shall give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
2And when she is departed, and marrieth another husband,
Cross References
Exodus 21:10And if he take another wife for him, he shall provide her a marriage, and raiment, neither shall he refuse the price of her chastity.
Deuteronomy 22:13If a man marry a wife, and afterwards hate her,
Deuteronomy 22:29He that lay with her shall give to the father of the maid fifty sides of silver, and shall have her to wife, because he hath humbled her: he may not put her away all the days of his life.
Isaiah 50:1Thus saith the Lord: What is this bill of the divorce of your mother, with which I have put her away? or who is my creditor, to whom I sold you: behold you are sold for your iniquities, and for your wicked deeds have I put your mother away.
Jeremiah 3:8That because the rebellious Israel had played the harlot, I had put her away, and had given her a bill of divorce: yet her treacherous sister Juda was not afraid, but went and played the harlot also herself.
Matthew 1:19Whereupon Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing publicly to expose her, was minded to put her away privately.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 24:1
In this chapter we have, I. The toleration of divorce, ver. 1-4 . II. A discharge of new-married men from the war, ver. 5 . III. Laws concerning pledges, ver. 6 , 10-13 , 17 . IV. Against man-stealing, ver. 7 . V. Concerning the leprosy, ver. 8, 9 . VI. Against the injustice of masters towards their servants, ver. 14, 15 . Judges in capital causes ( ver. 16 ), and civil concerns, ver. 17, 18 . VII. Of charity to the poor, ver. 19 , &c. Read the whole commentary →