Mark 10:4

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

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  • Deut 24:1-4 : 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. 2 When she has left him she may go and become someone else’s wife. 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.
  • Matt 5:31-32 : 31 Divorce“It was said,‘Whoever divorces his wife must give her a legal document.’ 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.
  • Matt 19:7 : 7 They said to him,“Why then did Moses command us to give a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her?”
  • Isa 50:1 : 1 This is what the LORD says:“Where is your mother’s divorce certificate by which I divorced her? Or to which of my creditors did I sell you? Look, you were sold because of your sins; because of your rebellious acts I divorced your mother.
  • Jer 3:1 : 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.
  • Matt 1:19 : 19 Because Joseph, her husband to be, was a righteous man, and because he did not want to disgrace her, he intended to divorce her privately.

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    3Then some Pharisees came to him in order to test him. They asked,“Is it lawful to divorce a wife for any cause?”

    4He answered,“Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator made them male and female,

    5and said,‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be united with his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?

    6So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

    7They said to him,“Why then did Moses command us to give a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her?”

    8Jesus said to them,“Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because of your hard hearts, but from the beginning it was not this way.

    9Now I say to you that whoever divorces his wife, except for immorality, and marries another commits adultery.”

    10The 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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    2Then some Pharisees came, and to test him they asked,“Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”

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    5But Jesus said to them,“He wrote this commandment for you because of your hard hearts.

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