Deuteronomy 24:2

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's [wife].

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Referenced Verses

Lev 21:7 : 7 They shall not take a woman that is a harlot, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God.
Lev 21:14 : 14 A widow, or one divorced, or a profane woman, a harlot, these shall he not take: but a virgin of his own people shall he take to wife.
Lev 22:13 : 13 But if a priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and be returned unto her father's house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father's bread: but there shall no stranger eat thereof.
Num 30:9 : 9 But the vow of a widow, or of her that is divorced, [even] everything wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand against her.
Ezek 44:22 : 22 Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away; but they shall take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that is the widow of a priest.
Matt 5:32 : 32 but I say unto you, that every one that putteth away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, maketh her an adulteress: and whosoever shall marry her when she is put away committeth adultery.
Mark 10:11 : 11 And he saith unto them, Whosoever {G1437} shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her:
1 Cor 7:15 : 15 Yet if the unbelieving departeth, let him depart: the brother or the sister is not under bondage in such [cases]: but God hath called us in peace.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

Deut 24:3-5
3 verses
86%
3And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, who took her to be his wife;
4her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before Jehovah: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.
5When a man taketh a new wife, he shall not go out in the host, neither shall he be charged with any business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he hath taken.
Deut 24:1
86%
1When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he hath found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
1 Cor 7:10-11
2 verses
75%
10But unto the married I give charge, [yea] not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband
11(but {G2532} should she depart, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband); and {G863} that the husband leave not his wife.
Mark 10:11-12
2 verses
75%
11And he saith unto them, Whosoever {G1437} shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her:
12and if she herself shall put away her husband, and marry another, she committeth adultery.
Exod 21:7-11
5 verses
75%
7And if a man sell his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the men-servants do.
8If she please not her master, who hath espoused her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a foreign people he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.
9And if he espouse her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.
10If he take him another [wife]; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
11And if he do not these three things unto her, then shall she go out for nothing, without money.
Deut 22:13-14
2 verses
75%
13If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,
14and lay shameful things to her charge, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came nigh to her, I found not in her the tokens of virginity;
Rom 7:2-3
2 verses
75%
2For the woman that hath a husband is bound by law to the husband while he liveth; but if the husband die, she is discharged from the law of the husband.
3So then if, while the husband liveth, she be joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if the husband die, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she be joined to another man.
Exod 21:3-4
2 verses
75%
3If he come in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he be married, then his wife shall go out with him.
4If his master give him a wife, and she bear him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.
Deut 21:11-14
4 verses
75%
11and seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and thou hast a desire unto her, and wouldest take her to thee to wife;
12then thou shalt bring her home to thy house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;
13and she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thy house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife.
14And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money, thou shalt not deal with her as a slave, because thou hast humbled her.
Gen 2:24
74%
24Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Matt 5:31
73%
31It was said also, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:
Num 5:20
72%
20But if thou have gone aside, being under thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee besides thy husband:
Job 31:10
72%
10Then let my wife grind unto another, And let others bow down upon her.
1 Cor 7:39
72%
39A wife is bound for so long time as her husband liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
Num 30:6
72%
6And if she be [married] to a husband, while her vows are upon her, or the rash utterance of her lips, wherewith she hath bound her soul,
Deut 20:7
72%
7And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.
Deut 28:30
72%
30Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build a house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not use the fruit thereof.
Num 5:29
72%
29This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goeth aside, and is defiled;
Num 5:12-13
2 verses
71%
12Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him,
13and a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no witness against her, and she be not taken in the act;
Hos 2:7
71%
7And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.
Gen 24:38-39
2 verses
71%
38but thou shalt go unto my father's house, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son.
39And I said unto my master, Peradventure the woman will not follow me.
Luke 16:18
71%
18Every one that putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth one that is put away from a husband committeth adultery.
Prov 30:23
71%
23For an odious woman when she is married; And a handmaid that is heir to her mistress.
Num 30:9-12
4 verses
71%
9But the vow of a widow, or of her that is divorced, [even] everything wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand against her.
10And if she vowed in her husband's house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath,
11and her husband heard it, and held his peace at her, and disallowed her not; then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.
12But if her husband made them null and void in the day that he heard them, then whatsoever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand: her husband hath made them void; and Jehovah will forgive her.
Matt 19:9-10
2 verses
71%
9And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth her when she is put away committeth adultery.
10The disciples say unto him, If the case of the man is so with his wife, it is not expedient to marry.
Deut 22:24
71%
24then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them to death with stones; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbor's wife: so thou shalt put away the evil from the midst of thee.
Matt 22:25
70%
25Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first married and deceased, and having no seed left his wife unto his brother;
Mark 10:7
70%
7For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife;
Deut 25:5
70%
5If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother unto her.
Jer 3:1
69%
1They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, will he return unto her again? will not that land be greatly polluted? But thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith Jehovah.