Deuteronomy 24:4

World English Bible (2000)

her 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 Yahweh: and you shall not cause the land to sin, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 3:1 : 1 "They say, 'If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and become another man's, will he return to her again?' Wouldn't that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to me," says Yahweh.
  • Lev 18:24-28 : 24 "'Don't defile yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations which I am casting out before you were defiled. 25 The land was defiled: therefore I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out her inhabitants. 26 You therefore shall keep my statutes and my ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the native-born, nor the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you; 27 (for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land became defiled); 28 that the land not vomit you out also, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
  • Josh 22:17-18 : 17 Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we have not cleansed ourselves to this day, although there came a plague on the congregation of Yahweh, 18 that you must turn away this day from following Yahweh? It will be, since you rebel today against Yahweh, that tomorrow he will be angry with the whole congregation of Israel.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 24:1-3
    3 verses
    84%

    1When a man takes a wife, and marries her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

    2When she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's [wife].

    3If the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorce, 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;

  • Jer 3:1-2
    2 verses
    76%

    1"They say, 'If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and become another man's, will he return to her again?' Wouldn't that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to me," says Yahweh.

    2"Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been lain with? You have sat for them by the ways, as an Arabian in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your prostitution and with your wickedness.

  • 14A widow, or one divorced, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he shall not marry: but a virgin of his own people shall he take as a wife.

  • 24"'Don't defile yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations which I am casting out before you were defiled.

  • Lev 18:27-28
    2 verses
    73%

    27(for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land became defiled);

    28that the land not vomit you out also, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.

  • 7"'They shall not marry a woman who is a prostitute, or profane; neither shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband: for he is holy to his God.

  • 20But if you have gone astray, being under your husband, and if you are defiled, and some man has lain with you besides your husband:"

  • 5When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be assigned any business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.

  • Lev 18:18-20
    3 verses
    72%

    18"'You shall not take a wife to her sister, to be a rival, to uncover her nakedness, while her sister is yet alive.

    19"'You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness.

    20"'You shall not lie carnally with your neighbor's wife, and defile yourself with her.

  • 3neither shall you make marriages with them; your daughter you shall not give to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your son.

  • Num 5:12-13
    2 verses
    72%

    12"Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them: 'If any man's wife goes astray, and is unfaithful to him,

    13and a man lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and is kept close, and she is defiled, and there is no witness against her, and she isn't taken in the act;

  • Lev 20:21-22
    2 verses
    72%

    21"'If a man takes his brother's wife, it is an impurity: he has uncovered his brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.

    22"'You shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my ordinances, and do them; that the land, where I am bringing you to dwell, may not vomit you out.

  • 22Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her who is put away; but they shall take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.

  • 12"But if you do at all go back, and hold fast to the remnant of these nations, even these who remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you;

  • Matt 5:31-32
    2 verses
    72%

    31"It was also said, 'Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,'

    32but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.

  • 71%

    13If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, and hates her,

    14and accuses her of shameful things, and brings up an evil name on her, and says, "I took this woman, and when I came near to her, I didn't find in her the tokens of virginity;"

  • 14It shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let her go where she will; but you shall not sell her at all for money, you shall not deal with her as a slave, because you have humbled her.

  • 16For I hate divorce," says Yahweh, the God of Israel, "and him who covers his garment with violence!" says Yahweh of Armies. "Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don't deal treacherously.

  • 71%

    11He said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her.

    12If a woman herself divorces her husband, and marries another, she commits adultery."

  • 11Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of Yahweh which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.

  • 30You shall betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell therein: you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not use its fruit.

  • Num 5:28-29
    2 verses
    71%

    28If the woman isn't defiled, but is clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.

    29"'This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goes astray, and is defiled;

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    15"Don't make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, lest they play the prostitute after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and one call you and you eat of his sacrifice;

    16and you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters play the prostitute after their gods, and make your sons play the prostitute after their gods.

  • 9I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery."

  • 18Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.

  • 20"'If a man lies carnally with a woman who is a slave girl, pledged to be married to another man, and not ransomed, or given her freedom; they shall be punished. They shall not be put to death, because she was not free.

  • 30A man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover his father's skirt.

  • 9"But the vow of a widow, or of her who is divorced, [even] everything with which she has bound her soul, shall stand against her.

  • 3So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.

  • 12But if her husband made them null and void in the day that he heard them, then whatever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand: her husband has made them void; and Yahweh will forgive her.

  • 2If there be found in the midst of you, within any of your gates which Yahweh your God gives you, man or woman, who does that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh your God, in transgressing his covenant,

  • 26You shall not bring an abomination into your house, and become a devoted thing like it. You shall utterly detest it, and you shall utterly abhor it; for it is a devoted thing.

  • 21then they shall bring out the young lady to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done folly in Israel, to play the prostitute in her father's house: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.

  • 5A woman shall not wear men's clothing, neither shall a man put on women's clothing; for whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh your God.

  • 4and it be told you, and you have heard of it, then you shall inquire diligently; and behold, if it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done in Israel,

  • 11and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you have a desire to her, and would take her to you as wife;