Deuteronomy 24:1
When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her, then it shall be, if she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
2And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife.
Cross References
Exodus 21:10If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
Deuteronomy 22:13If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,
Deuteronomy 22:29then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he hath humbled her; he may not put her away all his days.
Isaiah 50:1Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement, wherewith I have put her away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities were ye sold, and for your transgressions was your mother put away.
Jeremiah 3:8And I saw, when, for this very cause that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorcement, yet treacherous Judah her sister feared not; but she also went and played the harlot.
Matthew 1:19And Joseph her husband, being a righteous man, and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily.
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 →