Matthew 19:7

New American Standard Bible 2020

They *said to Him, “Why, then, did Moses command to give her a certificate of divorce and send her away?”

Cross References

Isaiah 50:1

This is what the Lord says: “Where is the certificate of divorce By which I have sent your mother away? Or to whom of My creditors did I sell you? Behold, you were sold for your wrongdoings, And for your wrongful acts your mother was sent away.

Jeremiah 3:8

And I saw that for all the adulteries of faithless Israel, I had sent her away and given her a certificate of divorce, yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear; but she went and prostituted herself also.

Malachi 2:16

“For I hate divorce,” says the Lord, the God of Israel, “and him who covers his garment with violence,” says the Lord of armies. “So be careful about your spirit, that you do not deal treacherously.”

Matthew 1:19

And her husband Joseph, since he was a righteous man and did not want to disgrace her, planned to send her away secretly.

Matthew 19:6

So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, no person is to separate.”

Matthew 19:8

He *said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses permitted you to divorce your wives; but from the beginning it has not been this way.

Matthew 5:31

“Now it was said, ‘Whoever sends his wife away is to give her a certificate of divorce’;

Mark 10:4

They said, “Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce and send his wife away.”