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Deuteronomy 24:1 KJV
Deuteronomy · chapter 24 · verse 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.Deuteronomy 24:1 · King James Version
Deuteronomy 24:1 in context
1When 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.
2And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife.
3And 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 if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife;
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- uncleannessʻervâhnudity, literally or figurativelyH6172 →
- divorcementkᵉrîythûwtha cuttingH3748 →
- marriedbâʻalto be masterH1166 →
- favourchêngraciousnessH2580 →
- takenlâqachto takeH3947 →
- writekâthabto grave, by implication, to writeH3789 →
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This is that permission which the Pharisees erroneously referred to as a precept, Mat 19:7, Moses commanded to give a writing of divorcement. It was not so;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-4