Verse 7

They asked him, "Why then did Moses command us to give her a bill of divorce, and divorce her?"

Referenced Verses

• Deut 24:1-4 : 1 When 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. 2 When she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's [wife]. 3 If 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; 4 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.
• Matt 5:31 : 31 "It was also said, 'Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,'
• Mark 10:4 : 4 They said, "Moses allowed a certificate of divorce to be written, and to divorce her."
• Isa 50:1 : 1 Thus says Yahweh, Where is the bill of your mother's divorce, with which I have put her away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities were you sold, and for your transgressions was your mother put away.
• Jer 3:8 : 8 I saw, when, for this very cause that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorce, yet treacherous Judah, her sister, didn't fear; but she also went and played the prostitute.
• Mal 2:16 : 16 For I hate divorce," says Yahweh, the God of Israel, "and him who covers his garment with violence!' says Yahweh of Hosts. "Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don't deal treacherously.
• Matt 1:19 : 19 Joseph, her husband, being a righteous man, and not willing to make her a public example, intended to put her away secretly.