Bible Cross References
Why
Matthew 5:31
"Furthermore it has been said, 'Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a divorce certificate.'
Deuteronomy 24:1-4
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And if anyone should take a wife, and should dwell with her, then it shall come to pass if she should not have found favor before him, because he has found some unbecoming thing in her, that he shall write for her a certificate of divorce, and give it into her hands, and he shall send her away out of his house.
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And [if] she should go away and be married to another man;
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and the last husband should hate her, and write for her a certificate of divorce, and should give it into her hands, and send her away out of his house, and the last husband should die, who took her to himself for a wife;
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the former husband who sent her away shall not be able to return and take her to himself for a wife, after she has been defiled; because it is an abomination before the Lord your God, and you shall not defile the land which the Lord your God gives you to inherit.
Isaiah 50:1
Thus says the Lord, Of what kind is your mother's bill of divorcement, by which I put her away? Or to which debtor have I sold you? Behold, you are sold for your sins, and for your iniquities have I put your mother away.
Jeremiah 3:8
And I saw that (for all the sins of which she was convicted, wherein the house of Israel committed adultery, and I put her away, and gave into her hands a certificate of divorce) yet faithless Judah feared not, but went and also committed fornication herself.
Mark 10:4
They said, "Moses permitted [a man] to write a certificate of divorce, and to put her away."
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Matthew 1:19
Then Joseph her husband, being righteous and not wanting to make her a public example, purposed to put her away secretly.
Malachi 2:16
But if you should hate [your wife] and put her away, says the Lord God of Israel, then ungodliness shall cover your thoughts, says the Lord Almighty: therefore take heed to your own spirit, and forsake them not,