Deuteronomy 24:2
When she has left him she may go and become someone else’s wife.
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Referenced Verses
- Lev 21:7 : 7 They must not take a wife defiled by prostitution, nor are they to take a wife divorced from her husband, for the priest is holy to his God.
- Lev 21:14 : 14 He must not marry a widow, a divorced woman, or one profaned by prostitution; he may only take a virgin from his people as a wife.
- Lev 22:13 : 13 but if a priest’s daughter is a widow or divorced, and she has no children so that she returns to live in her father’s house as in her youth, she may eat from her father’s food, but no lay person may eat it.
- Num 30:9 : 9 Vows Made by Widows“But every vow of a widow or of a divorced woman which she has pledged for herself will remain intact.
- Ezek 44:22 : 22 They must not marry a widow or a divorcee, but they may marry a virgin from the house of Israel or a widow who is a priest’s widow.
- Matt 5:32 : 32 But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except for immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
- Mark 10:11 : 11 So he told them,“Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her.
- 1 Cor 7:15 : 15 But if the unbeliever wants a divorce, let it take place. In these circumstances the brother or sister is not bound. God has called you in peace.
Similar Verses (AI)
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- Deut 24:3-53 verses86%
3 If the second husband rejects her and then divorces her, gives her the papers, and evicts her from his house, or if the second husband who married her dies,
4 her first husband who divorced her is not permitted to remarry her after she has become ritually impure, for that is offensive to the LORD. You must not bring guilt on the land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.
5 When a man is newly married, he need not go into the army nor be obligated in any way; he must be free to stay at home for a full year and bring joy to the wife he has married.
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1 If a man marries a woman and she does not please him because he has found something indecent in her, then he may draw up a divorce document, give it to her, and evict her from his house.
- 1 Cor 7:10-112 verses75%
10 To the married I give this command– not I, but the Lord– a wife should not divorce a husband
11 (but if she does, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband), and a husband should not divorce his wife.
- Mark 10:11-122 verses75%
11 So he told them,“Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her.
12 And if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”
- Exod 21:7-115 verses75%
7 “If a man sells his daughter as a female servant, she will not go out as the male servants do.
8 If she does not please her master, who has designated her for himself, then he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to a foreign nation, because he has dealt deceitfully with her.
9 If he designated her for his son, then he will deal with her according to the customary rights of daughters.
10 If he takes another wife, he must not diminish the first one’s food, her clothing, or her marital rights.
11 If he does not provide her with these three things, then she will go out free, without paying money.
- Deut 22:13-142 verses75%
13 Purity in the Marriage Relationship Suppose a man marries a woman, sleeps with her, and then rejects her,
14 accusing her of impropriety and defaming her reputation by saying,“I married this woman but when I approached her for marital relations I discovered she was not a virgin!”
- Rom 7:2-32 verses75%
2 For a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of the marriage.
3 So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is alive, she will be called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she is joined to another man, she is not an adulteress.
- Exod 21:3-42 verses75%
3 If he came in by himself he will go out by himself; if he had a wife when he came in, then his wife will go out with him.
4 If his master gave him a wife, and she bore sons or daughters, the wife and the children will belong to her master, and he will go out by himself.
- Deut 21:11-144 verses75%
11 if you should see among them an attractive woman whom you wish to take as a wife,
12 you may bring her back to your house. She must shave her head, trim her nails,
13 discard the clothing she was wearing when captured, and stay in your house, lamenting for her father and mother for a full month. After that you may sleep with her and become her husband and she your wife.
14 If you are not pleased with her, then you must let her go where she pleases. You cannot in any case sell her; you must not take advantage of her, since you have already humiliated her.
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24 That is why a man leaves his father and mother and unites with his wife, and they become a new family.
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31 Divorce“It was said,‘Whoever divorces his wife must give her a legal document.’
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20 But if you have gone astray while under your husband’s authority, and if you have defiled yourself and some man other than your husband has had sexual relations with you….”
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10 then let my wife turn the millstone for another man, and may other men commit adultery with her.
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39 A wife is bound as long as her husband is living. But if her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes(only someone in the Lord).
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6 Vows Made by Married Women“And if she marries a husband while under a vow, or she uttered anything impulsively by which she has pledged herself,
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7 Or who among you has become engaged to a woman but has not married her? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else marry her.”
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30 You will be engaged to a woman and another man will rape her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not even begin to use it.
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29 “‘This is the law for cases of jealousy, when a wife, while under her husband’s authority, goes astray and defiles herself,
- Num 5:12-132 verses71%
12 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them,‘If any man’s wife goes astray and behaves unfaithfully toward him,
13 and a man goes to bed with her, for sexual relations, without her husband knowing it, and it is hidden that she has defiled herself, since there was no witness against her, nor was she caught–
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7 Then she will pursue her lovers, but she will not catch them; she will seek them, but she will not find them. Then she will say,“I will go back to my husband, because I was better off then than I am now.”
- Gen 24:38-392 verses71%
38 but you must go to the family of my father and to my relatives to find a wife for my son.’
39 But I said to my master,‘What if the woman does not want to go with me?’
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18 “Everyone who divorces his wife and marries someone else commits adultery, and the one who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.
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23 under an unloved woman who becomes married, and under a female servant who dispossesses her mistress.
- Num 30:9-124 verses71%
9 Vows Made by Widows“But every vow of a widow or of a divorced woman which she has pledged for herself will remain intact.
10 If she made the vow in her husband’s house or put herself under obligation with an oath,
11 and her husband heard about it, but remained silent about her, and did not overrule her, then all her vows will stand, and every obligation which she pledged for herself will stand.
12 But if her husband clearly nullifies them when he hears them, then whatever she says by way of vows or obligations will not stand. Her husband has made them void, and the LORD will release her from them.
- Matt 19:9-102 verses71%
9 Now I say to you that whoever divorces his wife, except for immorality, and marries another commits adultery.”
10 The disciples said to him,“If this is the case of a husband with a wife, it is better not to marry!”
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24 you must bring the two of them to the gate of that city and stone them to death, the young woman because she did not cry out though in the city and the man because he violated his neighbor’s fiancée; in this way you will purge evil from among you.
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25 Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died, and since he had no children he left his wife to his brother.
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7 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother,
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5 Respect for the Sanctity of Others If brothers live together and one of them dies without having a son, the dead man’s wife must not remarry someone outside the family. Instead, her late husband’s brother must go to her, marry her, and perform the duty of a brother-in-law.
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1 “If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and becomes another man’s wife, he may not take her back again. Doing that would utterly defile the land. But you, Israel, have given yourself as a prostitute to many gods. So what makes you think you can return to me?” says the LORD.