Matthew 19:7 - Modern English Version

⁷ They said to Him, “Then why did Moses command to give a certificate of divorce, and to send her away?”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ They said to Him, Why then did Moses command [us] to give a certificate of divorce and thus to dismiss and repudiate a wife? [Deut. 24:1-4.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ They say unto him, Why then did Moses command to give a bill of divorcement, and to put her away?

Common English Bible

⁷ The Pharisees said to him, “Then why did Moses command us to give a divorce certificate and divorce her?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ They said to him, "Then why did Moses command him to give a bill of divorce, and to separate?"

Matthew 19:7 Tagairtí Cros

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 3:8

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.

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.

Matthew 19:6

So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no man put asunder.”

Matthew 19:8

He said to them, “Moses, for the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.

Matthew 5:31

“It was said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’

Mark 10:4

They said, “Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce and to divorce her.”