1 “When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and ehe writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, and she departs out of his house,
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Matthew 19:7
They said to him, “Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce and to send her away?”
Mark 10:4
They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away.”
Matthew 5:31
“It was also said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’
Isaiah 50:1
Thus says the LORD:
“Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce,
with which I sent her away?
Or which of my creditors is it
to whom I have sold you?
Behold, for your iniquities you were sold,
and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.
Jeremiah 3:8
She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, I had sent her away with a decree of divorce. Yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she too went and played the whore.
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