Yet you say, 'Why?' Because the LORD has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.
For I hate divorce,* says the LORD, the God of Yisra'el, *and him who covers his garment with violence!* says the LORD of Armies. *Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don't deal treacherously.
For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.