They said to Him, “Why then did Mosheh command to give a certificate of divorce, and to put her away?”
Thus says יהוה, “Where is the certificate of your mother’s divorce, whom I have put away? Or which of My creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Look, you were sold for your crookednesses, and your mother was put away for your transgressions.
“And I saw that for all the causes for which backsliding Yisra’ĕ
“For I hate divorce,” said יהוה Elohim of Yisra’ĕ
And Yosĕ
“So that they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what Elohim has joined together, let man not separate.”
He said to them, “Because of the hardness of your hearts, Mosheh allowed you to put away your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.
“And it has been said, ‘Whoever puts away his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’
And they said, “Mosheh allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce, and to put her away.”