Mark 10:4
One of them replied, “Moses permitted that a man may write on paper his reason for divorcing his wife, give this paper to her, and then send her away.”
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.
In Context
3He answered them, “What did Moses command your ancestors about a man divorcing his wife?”
Cross References
Deuteronomy 24:1“Suppose a man marries a woman and later decides that he does not want her because there is something about her that he doesn’t like. And suppose he writes on paper that he is divorcing her, and he gives the paper to her [SYN] and sends her away from his house.
Jeremiah 3:1“ Moses wrote that if a man divorces his wife and then she marries another man, her first husband certainly must not [RHQ] take her back again to be his wife, because that would certainly [RHQ] cause the whole nation to become unacceptable to me. But you have more idols than prostitutes have men whom they have slept with! So, why should I accept you if you return to me?” [RHQ] says Yahweh.
Matthew 5:31“It is written { Moses wrote}, ‘If a man is divorcing his wife, he should write a document on which he states that he is divorcing her.’
Matthew Henry on Mark 10:2-13
The Doctrine of Divorce. 1 And he arose from thence, and cometh into the coasts of Judæa by the farther side of Jordan: and the people resort unto him again; and, as he was wont, he taught them again. 2 And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him. 3 And he answered and said unto them, What did Moses command you? 4 And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away. 5 And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of… Read the whole commentary →