Matthew 5:31
It was said also, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:
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- Jeremiah 3:1 They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man’s, will he return unto her again? will not that land be greatly polluted? But thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith Jehovah.
- Deuteronomy 24:1–3 When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her, then it shall be, if she find no favor 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. And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife. And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, who took her to be his wife;
- Matthew 19:7 They say unto him, Why then did Moses command to give a bill of divorcement, and to put her away?