When she has departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife.
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When she has departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife.
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And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife.
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and she departeth out of his house, and goeth and becometh another man's wife,
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Passages linked to Deuteronomy 24:2 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Leviticus 21:7 “ ‘They shall not marry a woman who is a prostitute, or profane. A priest shall not marry a woman divorced from her husband; for he is holy to his God.
- Leviticus 21:14 He shall not marry a widow, or one divorced, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute. He shall take a virgin of his own people as a wife.
- Leviticus 22:13 But if a priest’s daughter is a widow, or divorced, and has no child, and has returned to her father’s house as in her youth, she may eat of her father’s bread; but no stranger shall eat any of it.
- Numbers 30:9 “But the vow of a widow, or of her who is divorced, everything with which she has bound her soul shall stand against her.
- Ezekiel 44:22 They shall not take for their wives a widow, or her who is put away; but they shall take virgins of the offspring of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.
- Matthew 5:32 but 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.
- Mark 10:11 He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her.
- 1 Corinthians 7:15 Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain For although he could not causelessly put her away…
For although he could not causelessly put her away without sin, yet she being put away, and forsaken by her husband, might marry another without sin, as is determined in the same or a like case, 1Co 7:15.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And when she is departed out of his house,....…
And when she is departed out of his house,.... With her bill of divorce, by which departure out of his house it is notified to all:
she may go and be other man's wife; it was permitted her to marry another man, she being by her divorce freed from the law of her former husband; and who indeed, in express words contained in the divorce, gave her leave so to do; which ran thus,"thou art in thine own hand, and hast power over thyself to go and marry any other man whom thou pleasest; and let no man hinder thee in my name, from this day forward and for ever; and, lo, thou art free to any man;''See Gill on Mat 5:31.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 2. And she depart … out of his house,…
2. And she depart … out of his house, and go and become another man’s] Still part of the protasis of the sentence, stating the facts of the case.
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