24 1 Divorcement is permitted. 5 He that is newly married is exempted from war. 6 Of the pledge. 14 Wages must not be retained. 16 The good must not be punished for the bad. 17 The care of the stranger, fatherless, and widow.

When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her, if so be she find no favor in his eyes, because he hath espied some filthiness in her, [a]then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and put it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

And when she is departed out of his house, and gone her way, and marry with another man,

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 24:1 Hereby God approveth not that light divorcement, but permitteth it to avoid further inconvenience, Matt. 19:7.

24 If a man marries a woman who becomes displeasing to him(A) because he finds something indecent about her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce,(B) gives it to her and sends her from his house, and if after she leaves his house she becomes the wife of another man,

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