Matthew 19:7
They asked him, “Why then did Moses command us to give her a certificate of divorce and divorce her?”
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- Deuteronomy 24:1–3 When a man takes a wife and marries her, then it shall be, if she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a certificate of divorce, put it in her hand, and send her out of his house. When she has departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife. If the latter husband hates her, and writes her a certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house; or if the latter husband dies, who took her to be his wife;
- Matthew 5:31 “It was also said, ‘Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,’
- Mark 10:4 They said, “Moses allowed a certificate of divorce to be written, and to divorce her.”