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Deuteronomy 24:2

When she has gone out of his house, she may go and be another man's wife.

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In The King James Version

And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife.

In Context

1When a man takes a wife and marries her, if she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some unsuitable thing in her, then he must write her a certificate of divorce, put it into her hand, and send her out of his house.

3If the second husband hates her and writes her a certificate of divorce, puts it into her hand, and sends her out of his house; or if the second husband dies, the man who took her to be his wife—

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Cross References

Leviticus 21:7They must not marry any woman who is a prostitute and who is defiled, and they must not marry a woman divorced from her husband, for they are separate for their God.

Leviticus 22:13But if a priest's daughter is a widow, or divorced, and if she has no child, and if she returns to live in her father's house as in her youth, she may eat from her father's food. But no one who is not in the priestly family may eat from the priest's food.

Ezekiel 44:22nor take a widow or a divorced woman as a wife for himself, but only a virgin from the line of the house of Israel or a widow who was previously married to a priest.

Mark 10:11He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her.

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 →

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