Deuteronomy 24:1

Modern English Version

When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens that she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, then let him write her a bill of divorce and put it in her hand and send her out of his house.

Cross References

Exodus 21:10

If he marries another wife, then he must not diminish the first one’s food, her clothing, or her marital rights.

Isaiah 50:1

Thus says the Lord: Where is the certificate of divorce by which I sent your mother away? Or to which of My creditors did I sell you? Behold, for your iniquities you were sold, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.

Jeremiah 3:1

If a man divorces his wife, and she goes from him and becomes another man’s, shall he return to her again? Shall not that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to Me, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 3:8

I saw that for all the adulteries of backsliding Israel, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorce. Yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but went and played the harlot also.

Malachi 2:16

For the Lord, the God of Israel, says that He hates divorce; for it covers one’s garment with violence, says the Lord of Hosts. Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you do not deal treacherously.

Numbers 5:12

Speak to the Israelites and say to them: If any man’s wife goes astray, and acts treacherously against him,

Numbers 5:28

If the woman is not defiled, but is clean, then she will be free and will conceive offspring.

Matthew 1:19

Then Joseph her husband, being a just man and not willing to make her a public example, had in mind to divorce her privately.

Luke 16:18

“Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and whoever marries her who is divorced by her husband commits adultery.

Deuteronomy 21:15

If a man has two wives, one beloved and another unloved, and both have borne him children, both the loved one and the unloved one, and if the firstborn son is hers that is unloved,

Deuteronomy 22:13

If any man takes a wife and has sexual relations with her and then rejects her,

Deuteronomy 22:19

and they must fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the father of the girl, because he has publicly humiliated a virgin of Israel. Then she is to remain his wife. He may not divorce her all his days.

Deuteronomy 22:29

then the man who lay with her must give fifty shekels of silver to the girl’s father, and she shall be his wife because he has violated her. He may not divorce her all his days.

Deuteronomy 24:2

When she departs out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife.

Deuteronomy 24:3

If the second husband rejects her and writes her a bill of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the second husband who took her to be his wife dies,