They said, “Moses allowed a certificate of divorce to be written, and to divorce her.”
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They said, “Moses allowed a certificate of divorce to be written, and to divorce her.”
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And they sayde: Moses suffred to wryte a testimoniall of devorsement and to put hyr awaye.
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And they sayd, Moses suffered to write a bill of diuorcement, and to put her away.
Cross-references (6)
Passages linked to Mark 10:4 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Deuteronomy 24:1-4 When a man takes a wife and marries her, then it shall be, if she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a certificate of divorce, put it in her hand, and send her out of his house. When she has departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife. If the latter husband hates her, and write her a certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house; or if the latter husband dies, who took her to be his wife; her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife after she is defiled; for that would be an abomination to Yahweh. You shall not cause the land to sin, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.
- Matthew 5:31-32 “It was also said, ‘Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,’ 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.
- Matthew 19:7 They asked him, “Why then did Moses command us to give her a certificate of divorce, and divorce her?”
- Isaiah 50:1 Yahweh says, “Where is the bill of your mother’s divorce, with which I have put her away? Or to which of my creditors have I sold you? Behold, you were sold for your iniquities, and your mother was put away for your transgressions.
- Jeremiah 3:1 “They say, ‘If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and becomes another man’s, should 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.
- Matthew 1:19 Joseph, her husband, being a righteous man, and not willing to make her a public example, intended to put her away secretly.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 4 And they said, Moses suffered to write a…
4 And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.
Ver. 4. Moses suffered to write] Not commanded. There is a difference between a permission and a precept, properly so called. {See Trapp on "Mat 19:7"} Non statim probat Deus quod permittit, God approves not presently whatsoever he permits.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And they said,.... By way of reply,
And they said,.... By way of reply,
Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away, Moses did not command them to divorce their wives, only suffered them to do so: and gave orders that if they could not bear that they should live with them, but would divorce them, that they should give them a bill, which should certify, they were so divorced, and then send them out of their houses, free to marry other men; this law, or permission, is in Deu 24:1, of the form of a bill of divorcement, See Gill on Mat 5:31.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Deut. xxiv, 1.
Deut. xxiv, 1.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Moses permitted the injured husband to send away his…
Moses permitted the injured husband to send away his wife, declaring that he had repudiated her. See Deuteronomy xxiv. 1.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 10:4 The Pharisees quoted what Moses permitted. There was…
10:4 The Pharisees quoted what Moses permitted. There was much debate among rabbis as to what constituted the “something wrong” (see Deut 24:1) that made divorce permissible. Rabbi Shammai allowed divorce only on the basis of sexual immorality. Rabbi Hillel permitted divorce even if a woman burned her husband’s dinner or was less attractive than someone else (Mishnah Gittin 9:10).
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