Deuteronomy 24:4
The former husband cannot take her again to wife: because she is defiled, and is become abominable before the Lord: lest thou cause thy land to sin, which the Lord thy God shall give thee to possess.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Leviticus 18:24Defile not yourselves with any of these things with which all the nations have been defiled, which I will cast out before you,
Deuteronomy 20:16But of those cities that shall be given thee, thou shalt suffer none at all to live:
Jeremiah 3:1It is commonly said: If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and marry another man, shall he return to her any more? shall not that woman be polluted, and defiled? but thou hast prostituted thyself to many lovers: nevertheless return to me, saith the Lord, and I will receive thee.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 24:2-5
The Law Concerning Divorce. ( b. c. 1451.) 1 When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. 2 And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's wife. 3 And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or… Read the whole commentary →