Deuteronomy 24:1
When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her, if so be shee finde no fauour in his eyes, because hee hath espyed some filthinesse in her, then let him write her a bill of diuorcement, and put it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
2And when she is departed out of his house, and gone her way, and marrie with an other man,
Cross References
Exodus 21:10If he take him another wife, he shall not diminish her foode, her rayment, and recompence of her virginitie.
Deuteronomy 22:13If a man take a wife, and when he hath lyen with her, hate her,
Deuteronomy 22:29Then the man that lay with her, shall giue vnto the maydes father fiftie shekels of siluer: and she shalbe his wife, because he hath humbled her: he can not put her away all his life.
Isaiah 50:1Thus sayeth the Lord, Where is that bill of your mothers diuorcement, whome I haue cast off? or who is the creditour to whome I solde you? Beholde, for your iniquities are yee solde, and because of your transgressions is your mother forsaken.
Jeremiah 3:8When I sawe, howe that by all occasions rebellious Israel had plaied the harlot, I cast her away, and gaue her a bill of diuorcement: yet her rebellious sister Iudah was not afraied, but shee went also, and plaied the harlot.
Matthew 1:19Then Ioseph her husband being a iust man, and not willing to make her a publike example, was minded to put her away secretly.
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 →