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Having discovered something wrong with her, he writes a document of divorce, hands it to her, and sends her away from his house. <a href="/esv/deuteronomy/24.htm">English Standard Version</a> “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 he 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, <a href="/bsb/deuteronomy/24.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> If a man marries a woman, but she becomes displeasing to him because he finds some indecency in her, he may write her a certificate of divorce, hand it to her, and send her away from his house. <a href="/kjv/deuteronomy/24.htm">King James Bible</a> When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. <a href="/nkjv/deuteronomy/24.htm">New King James Version</a> “When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens that she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some uncleanness in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house, <a href="/nasb_/deuteronomy/24.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> “When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens, if she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, that he writes her a certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her away from his house, <a href="/nasb/deuteronomy/24.htm">NASB 1995</a> &#8220When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens that she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out from his house, <a href="/nasb77/deuteronomy/24.htm">NASB 1977 </a> “When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens that she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out from his house, <a href="/lsb/deuteronomy/24.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> “If a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens that she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out from his house, <a href="/amp/deuteronomy/24.htm">Amplified Bible</a> “When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens that she loses his favor because he has found something indecent or unacceptable about her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, <a href="/csb/deuteronomy/24.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> “If a man marries a woman, but she becomes displeasing to him because he finds something indecent about her, he may write her a divorce certificate, hand it to her, and send her away from his house. <a href="/hcsb/deuteronomy/24.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> If a man marries a woman, but she becomes displeasing to him because he finds something improper about her, he may write her a divorce certificate, hand it to her, and send her away from his house. <a href="/asv/deuteronomy/24.htm">American Standard Version</a> When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he hath found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. <a href="/cev/deuteronomy/24.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> Suppose a woman was divorced by her first husband because he found something disgraceful about her. He wrote out divorce papers, gave them to her, and sent her away. <a href="/erv/deuteronomy/24.htm">English Revised Version</a> When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her, then it shall be, if she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. <a href="/gwt/deuteronomy/24.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> This is what you must do if a husband writes out a certificate of divorce, gives it to his wife, and makes her leave his house. (He divorced her because he found out something indecent about her and she no longer pleased him.) <a href="/gnt/deuteronomy/24.htm">Good News Translation</a> "Suppose a man marries a woman and later decides that he doesn't want her, because he finds something about her that he doesn't like. So he writes out divorce papers, gives them to her, and sends her away from his home. <a href="/isv/deuteronomy/24.htm">International Standard Version</a> "If a man chooses to enter into marriage with a woman, but she finds herself displeasing to him because he has found something objectionable about her, he must draw up divorce papers, hand them to her, and then send her out of his house. <a href="/msb/deuteronomy/24.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> If a man marries a woman, but she becomes displeasing to him because he finds some indecency in her, he may write her a certificate of divorce, hand it to her, and send her away from his house. <a href="/net/deuteronomy/24.htm">NET Bible</a> If a man marries a woman and she does not please him because he has found something offensive in her, then he may draw up a divorce document, give it to her, and evict her from his house. <a href="/nheb/deuteronomy/24.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> 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. <a href="/wbt/deuteronomy/24.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it shall come to pass that she findeth no favor in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. <a href="/web/deuteronomy/24.htm">World English Bible</a> 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. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/deuteronomy/24.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> “When a man takes a wife and has married her, and it has been, if she does not find grace in his eyes (for he has found nakedness in her of anything), then he has written a writing of divorce for her, and given [it] into her hand, and sent her out of his house; <a href="/ylt/deuteronomy/24.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> When a man doth take a wife, and hath married her, and it hath been, if she doth not find grace in his eyes (for he hath found in her nakedness of anything), and he hath written for her a writing of divorce, and given it into her hand, and sent her out of his house, <a href="/slt/deuteronomy/24.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> When a man shall take a wife and he married her, and it was if she shall find not favor in his eyes because he found in her a nakedness of the word: and he wrote for her a writing of cutting off, and gave in her hand, and sent her away from his house.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/deuteronomy/24.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> If a man take a wife, and have her, and she find not favour in his eyes, for some uncleanness: he shall write a bill of divorce, and shall give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. <a href="/cpdv/deuteronomy/24.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> “If a man takes a wife, and he has her, and she does not find favor before his eyes because of some vileness, then he shall write a bill of divorce, and he shall give it to her hand, and he shall dismiss her from his house. <a href="/nabre/deuteronomy/24.htm">New American Bible</a> When a man, after marrying a woman, is later displeased with her because he finds in her something indecent, and he writes out a bill of divorce and hands it to her, thus dismissing her from his house, <a href="/nrsvce/deuteronomy/24.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> Suppose a man enters into marriage with a woman, but she does not please him because he finds something objectionable about her, and so he writes her a certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house; she then leaves his house<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/deuteronomy/24.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> IF a man takes a wife, and lies with her, and if she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some evidence of open prostitution in her; then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it to her, and send her out of his house. <a href="/hpbt/deuteronomy/24.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> "And if a man will take a wife and he will have sexual intercourse with her, if she has not found love before him because he has found in her a matter of disgrace, he shall write to her a writing of divorce and he shall give it to her and he shall send her away.<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/deuteronomy/24.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her, then it cometh to pass, if she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some unseemly thing in her, that he writeth her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house, <a href="/sep/deuteronomy/24.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> And if any one should take a wife, and should dwell with her, then it shall come to pass if she should not have found favour before him, because he has found some unbecoming thing in her, that he shall write for her a bill of divorcement, and give it into her hands, and he shall send her away out of his house. <a href="/parallel/deuteronomy/24-1.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/IRhBtZaVxJ0?start=6444" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/deuteronomy/24.htm">Law of Divorce</a> 1<a href="/hebrew/3588.htm" title="3588: kî- (Conj) -- That, for, when. ">If</a> <a href="/hebrew/3947.htm" title="3947: yiq·qaḥ (V-Qal-Imperf-3ms) -- To take. A primitive root; to take."></a> <a href="/hebrew/376.htm" title="376: ’îš (N-ms) -- Man. Contracted for 'enowsh; a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term.">a man</a> <a href="/hebrew/1166.htm" title="1166: ū·ḇə·‘ā·lāh (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConjPerf-3ms:: 3fs) -- To marry, rule over. A primitive root; to be master; hence, to marry.">marries</a> <a href="/hebrew/1961.htm" title="1961: wə·hā·yāh (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConjPerf-3ms) -- To fall out, come to pass, become, be. A primitive root; to exist, i.e. Be or become, come to pass."></a> <a href="/hebrew/802.htm" title="802: ’iš·šāh (N-fs) -- Woman, wife, female. Feminine of 'iysh or 'enowsh; irregular plural, nashiym; a woman.">a woman,</a> <a href="/hebrew/518.htm" title="518: ’im- (Conj) -- If. A primitive particle; used very widely as demonstrative, lo!">but</a> <a href="/hebrew/3808.htm" title="3808: lō (Adv-NegPrt) -- Not. Or lowi; or loh; a primitive particle; not; by implication, no; often used with other particles.">she becomes displeasing</a> <a href="/hebrew/4672.htm" title="4672: ṯim·ṣā- (V-Qal-Imperf-3fs) -- To attain to, find. "></a> <a href="/hebrew/2580.htm" title="2580: ḥên (N-ms) -- Favor, grace. From chanan; graciousness, i.e. Subjective or objective."></a> <a href="/hebrew/5869.htm" title="5869: bə·‘ê·nāw (Prep-b:: N-cdc:: 3ms) -- An eye. Probably a primitive word; an eye; by analogy, a fountain."></a> <a href="/hebrew/3588.htm" title="3588: kî- (Conj) -- That, for, when. ">to him because</a> <a href="/hebrew/4672.htm" title="4672: mā·ṣā (V-Qal-Perf-3ms) -- To attain to, find. ">he finds</a> <a href="/hebrew/1697.htm" title="1697: dā·ḇār (N-ms) -- Speech, word. From dabar; a word; by implication, a matter or thing; adverbially, a cause.">some</a> <a href="/hebrew/6172.htm" title="6172: ‘er·waṯ (N-fsc) -- Nakedness. From arah; nudity, literally or figuratively.">indecency</a> <a href="/hebrew/ḇāh (Prep:: 3fs) -- ">in her,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3789.htm" title="3789: wə·ḵā·ṯaḇ (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConjPerf-3ms) -- To write. A primitive root; to grave, by implication, to write.">he may write</a> <a href="/hebrew/lāh (Prep:: 3fs) -- ">her</a> <a href="/hebrew/5612.htm" title="5612: sê·p̄er (N-msc) -- A missive, document, writing, book. Or ciphrah; from caphar; properly, writing; by implication, a book.">a certificate</a> <a href="/hebrew/3748.htm" title="3748: kə·rî·ṯuṯ (N-fs) -- Divorcement. From karath; a cutting, i.e. Divorce.">of divorce,</a> <a href="/hebrew/5414.htm" title="5414: wə·nā·ṯan (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConjPerf-3ms) -- To give, put, set. A primitive root; to give, used with greatest latitude of application.">hand it to</a> <a href="/hebrew/3027.htm" title="3027: bə·yā·ḏāh (Prep-b:: N-fsc:: 3fs) -- Hand (indicating power, means, direction, etc.)">her,</a> <a href="/hebrew/7971.htm" title="7971: wə·šil·lə·ḥāh (Conj-w:: V-Piel-ConjPerf-3ms:: 3fs) -- To send. A primitive root; to send away, for, or out.">and send her away</a> <a href="/hebrew/1004.htm" title="1004: mib·bê·ṯōw (Prep-m:: N-msc:: 3ms) -- A house. Probably from banah abbreviated; a house.">from his house.</a> 2If, after leaving his house, she goes and becomes another man’s wife,…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/matthew/19-7.htm">Matthew 19:7-9</a> “Why then,” they asked, “did Moses order a man to give his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away?” / Jesus replied, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because of your hardness of heart. But it was not this way from the beginning. / Now I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery.” <a href="/mark/10-2.htm">Mark 10:2-12</a> Some Pharisees came to test Him. “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” they inquired. / “What did Moses command you?” He replied. / They answered, “Moses permitted a man to write his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away.” ... <a href="/matthew/5-31.htm">Matthew 5:31-32</a> It has also been said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce.’ / But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, brings adultery upon her. And he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery. <a href="/1_corinthians/7-10.htm">1 Corinthians 7:10-16</a> To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband. / But if she does, she must remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband. And a husband must not divorce his wife. / To the rest I say this (I, not the Lord): If a brother has an unbelieving wife and she is willing to live with him, he must not divorce her. ... <a href="/malachi/2-14.htm">Malachi 2:14-16</a> Yet you ask, “Why?” It is because the LORD has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have broken faith, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant. / Has not the LORD made them one, having a portion of the Spirit? And why one? Because He seeks godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit and do not break faith with the wife of your youth. / “For I hate divorce,” says the LORD, the God of Israel. “He who divorces his wife covers his garment with violence,” says the LORD of Hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit and do not break faith. <a href="/jeremiah/3-1.htm">Jeremiah 3:1</a> “If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, can he ever return to her? Would not such a land be completely defiled? But you have played the harlot with many lovers—and you would return to Me?” declares the LORD. <a href="/isaiah/50-1.htm">Isaiah 50:1</a> This is what the LORD says: “Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce with which I sent her away? Or to which of My creditors did I sell you? Look, you were sold for your iniquities, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away. <a href="/ezra/10-3.htm">Ezra 10:3</a> So now let us make a covenant before our God to send away all the foreign wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the command of our God. Let it be done according to the Law. <a href="/hosea/2-2.htm">Hosea 2:2</a> Rebuke your mother, rebuke her, for she is not My wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove the adultery from her face and the unfaithfulness from between her breasts. <a href="/romans/7-2.htm">Romans 7:2-3</a> For instance, a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage. / So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law and is not an adulteress if she marries another man. <a href="/luke/16-18.htm">Luke 16:18</a> Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery. <a href="/genesis/2-24.htm">Genesis 2:24</a> For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh. <a href="/leviticus/21-7.htm">Leviticus 21:7</a> A priest must not marry a woman defiled by prostitution or divorced by her husband, for the priest is holy to his God. <a href="/leviticus/21-14.htm">Leviticus 21:14</a> He is not to marry a widow, a divorced woman, or one defiled by prostitution. He is to marry a virgin from his own people, <a href="/leviticus/22-13.htm">Leviticus 22:13</a> But if a priest’s daughter with no children becomes widowed or divorced and returns to her father’s house, she may share her father’s food as in her youth. But no outsider may share it.</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>When a man has taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favor in his eyes, because he has found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.hath taken<a href="/deuteronomy/21-15.htm">Deuteronomy 21:15</a> If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated:<a href="/deuteronomy/22-13.htm">Deuteronomy 22:13</a> If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,<a href="/exodus/21-10.htm">Exodus 21:10</a> If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.uncleanness [heb] matter of nakedness <a href="/deuteronomy/24-3.htm">Deuteronomy 24:3</a> And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife;<a href="/jeremiah/3-8.htm">Jeremiah 3:8</a> And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.<a href="/matthew/5-31.htm">Matthew 5:31,32</a> It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement: … divorcement [heb] cutting off<a href="/isaiah/50-1.htm">Isaiah 50:1</a> Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.send her<a href="/deuteronomy/22-19.htm">Deuteronomy 22:19,29</a> And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days… <a href="/malachi/2-16.htm">Malachi 2:16</a> For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.<a href="/matthew/1-19.htm">Matthew 1:19</a> Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily.<div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/luke/16-7.htm">Bill</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/22-29.htm">Divorce</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/21-9.htm">Eyes</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/23-25.htm">Hand</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/23-18.htm">House</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/23-2.htm">Married</a> <a href="/numbers/30-6.htm">Marries</a> <a href="/luke/16-18.htm">Marrieth</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/23-10.htm">Uncleanness</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/23-14.htm">Unseemly</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/22-30.htm">Wife</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/17-18.htm">Write</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/10-4.htm">Writeth</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/deuteronomy/24-3.htm">Bill</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/24-3.htm">Divorce</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/25-3.htm">Eyes</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/24-3.htm">Hand</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/24-2.htm">House</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/24-3.htm">Married</a> <a href="/isaiah/62-5.htm">Marries</a> <a href="/isaiah/62-5.htm">Marrieth</a> <a href="/2_samuel/11-4.htm">Uncleanness</a> <a href="/job/1-22.htm">Unseemly</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/24-2.htm">Wife</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/24-3.htm">Write</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/24-3.htm">Writeth</a><div class="vheading2">Deuteronomy 24</div>1. <a href="/deuteronomy/24-1.htm">Of divorce</a> 5. <a href="/deuteronomy/24-5.htm">A new married man goes not to war</a> 6. <a href="/deuteronomy/24-6.htm">Of pledges</a> 7. <a href="/deuteronomy/24-7.htm">Of kidnapping</a> 8. <a href="/deuteronomy/24-8.htm">Of leprosy</a> 10. <a href="/deuteronomy/24-10.htm">Of pledges</a> 14. <a href="/deuteronomy/24-14.htm">The hire is to be given</a> 16. <a href="/deuteronomy/24-16.htm">Of justice</a> 19. <a href="/deuteronomy/24-19.htm">Of charity</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/deuteronomy/24.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/deuteronomy/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/deuteronomy/24.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div>If a man marries a woman In ancient Israel, marriage was a covenantal relationship, often arranged by families. It was a legal and social contract, reflecting the union between God and His people. The marriage covenant is foundational in Scripture, symbolizing the relationship between Christ and the Church (<a href="/ephesians/5-31.htm">Ephesians 5:31-32</a>).but she becomes displeasing to him The term "displeasing" indicates a subjective judgment by the husband. In the cultural context, this reflects the patriarchal society where men held significant authority over family matters. The Hebrew word used here can imply a broad range of dissatisfaction, not limited to moral failings.because he finds some indecency in her "Indecency" is a key term, often debated among scholars. It suggests a moral or physical defect, but not necessarily adultery, which was punishable by death (<a href="/leviticus/20-10.htm">Leviticus 20:10</a>). The ambiguity of "indecency" led to varied interpretations among Jewish rabbis, influencing later teachings on divorce.he may write her a certificate of divorce The certificate of divorce was a legal document, providing the woman with the right to remarry. This practice distinguished Israelite law from other ancient Near Eastern cultures, offering some protection to the woman. Jesus references this provision in <a href="/matthew/19-7.htm">Matthew 19:7-8</a>, highlighting the hardness of human hearts.hand it to her The act of handing the certificate signifies a formal and legal process. It underscores the seriousness of divorce, requiring deliberate action. This procedure ensured that the woman was officially released from the marriage covenant.and send her away from his house Sending her away reflects the finality of the divorce. In the historical context, a woman's security and social standing were tied to her husband's household. This phrase underscores the gravity of divorce, as it left the woman vulnerable, emphasizing the need for the certificate to protect her rights.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/m/moses.htm">Moses</a> The author of Deuteronomy, delivering God's laws to the Israelites. 2. <a href="/topical/i/israelites.htm">Israelites</a> The audience receiving the law, God's chosen people, preparing to enter the Promised Land. 3. <a href="/topical/m/marriage.htm">Marriage</a> The covenant relationship between a man and a woman, central to the social structure of Israel. 4. <a href="/topical/d/divorce.htm">Divorce</a> The legal dissolution of marriage, addressed here with specific conditions. 5. <a href="/topical/c/certificate_of_divorce.htm">Certificate of Divorce</a> A formal document required to legally end a marriage, providing protection and rights to the woman.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/u/understanding_the_context.htm">Understanding the Context</a> Recognize that <a href="/deuteronomy/24.htm">Deuteronomy 24:1</a> was given in a specific cultural and historical context where divorce was already practiced. The law aimed to regulate and protect, not endorse divorce. <a href="/topical/t/the_sanctity_of_marriage.htm">The Sanctity of Marriage</a> Marriage is a sacred covenant designed by God. This passage underscores the seriousness of entering and maintaining this covenant. <a href="/topical/t/the_role_of_the_heart.htm">The Role of the Heart</a> Jesus highlights that the allowance for divorce was due to the hardness of human hearts. Believers are called to cultivate hearts that align with God's original design for marriage. <a href="/topical/l/legal_protections_and_compassion.htm">Legal Protections and Compassion</a> The requirement of a certificate of divorce was a legal protection for women, ensuring their rights and dignity. This reflects God's concern for justice and compassion. <a href="/topical/r/reflecting_christ_in_marriage.htm">Reflecting Christ in Marriage</a> Christian marriages should strive to reflect the love, commitment, and sacrifice exemplified by Christ and the Church.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_deuteronomy_24.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Deuteronomy 24</a> <a href="/q/evidence_of_deut._24_laws_in_ancient_israel.htm">Where is the archaeological or historical evidence that these specific laws in Deuteronomy 24 were widely observed in ancient Israel?</a> <a href="/q/how_does_god_renew_israel's_covenant.htm">How can God renew a covenant with Israel in Jeremiah 3:1–8 despite Deuteronomy 24:1–4 forbidding reunions after divorce? </a> <a href="/q/how_is_divorce_justified_in_deuteronomy.htm">In Deuteronomy 24:1–4, how can divorce be justified when other biblical passages seem to condemn it entirely? </a> <a href="/q/is_this_your_divorce_certificate.htm">Is this your official Certificate of Divorce?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/deuteronomy/24.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>XXIV.<a href="/context/deuteronomy/24-1.htm" title="When a man has taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favor in his eyes, because he has found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.">Deuteronomy 24:1-4</a>. DIVORCE.Some uncleanness.--Evidently mere caprice and dislike are not intended here. There must be some real ground of complaint. (See Margin.)Let him write her a bill of divorcement.--"Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, suffered you to put away your wives," is the Divine comment upon this. It is a distinct concession to the weakness of Israel--not the ideal standard of the Law, but the highest which it was found practicable to enforce. (See <a href="/matthew/19-2.htm" title="And great multitudes followed him; and he healed them there.">Matthew 19:2</a> seq.) There are many other particular enactments in the Law of Moses of which the same thing may be said. The ideal standard of morality has never varied. There is no higher ideal than that of the Pentateuch. But the Law which was actually enforced, in many particulars fell short of that ideal.(2) If the latter husband hate her.--Rashi says here that "the Scripture intimates that the end of such a marriage will be that he will hate her." He makes a similar remark on the marriage with the captive in Deuteronomy 21. The result of the marriage will be a hated wife, and a firstborn son of her, who will be a glutton and a drunkard.(4) Her former husband . . . may not take her again . . . and thou shalt not cause the land to sin.--The comment upon this, supplied by <a href="/jeremiah/3-1.htm" title="They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return to her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but you have played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, said the LORD.">Jeremiah 3:1</a>, is singularly beautiful. "They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? Shall not that land be greatly polluted? But thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the Lord."<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/deuteronomy/24.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Ver 1. - Because he hath found some uncleanness in her; literally, a thing or matter of nakedness, i.e. some shameful thing, something disgraceful; LXX., ἄσχημον πρᾶγμα: Vulgate, "aliquam foeditatem." In the Targum of Onkelos, the expression is explained by עֲבֵירִת פִתֵגָם; "aliquid foeditatis" (London Polyglot); "iniquitas rei alicujus"(Buxtorf); "the transgression of a [Divine] word" (Levi). On this the school of Hillel among the rabbins put the interpretation that a man might divorce his wife for any unbecomingness (Mishna, 'Gittin,' 9:10), or indeed for any cause, as the Pharisees in our Lord's day taught (<a href="/matthew/19-3.htm">Matthew 19:3</a>). The school of Shammai, on the other hand, taught that only for something disgraceful, such as adultery, could a wife be divorced (Lightfoot, 'Her. Hebrews et Talm.,' on <a href="/matthew/5-31.htm">Matthew 5:31</a>, Opp., tom. 2:290). Adultery, however, cannot be supposed here because that was punishable with death. A bill of divorcement; literally, a writing of excision; the man and woman having by marriage become one flesh, the divorce of the woman was a cutting of her off from the one whole. Lightfoot has given (lee. et.) different forms of letters of divorce in use among the Jews (see also Maimonides, 'De Divortiis,' <a href="/deuteronomy/4.htm">Deuteronomy 4</a>. § 12). <a href="/commentaries/deuteronomy/24-1.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>If כִּֽי־ (kî-) Conjunction <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> A relative conjunction a man אִ֛ישׁ (’îš) Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_376.htm">Strong's 376: </a> A man as an individual, a male person marries וּבְעָלָ֑הּ (ū·ḇə·‘ā·lāh) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular | third person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1166.htm">Strong's 1166: </a> To be master, to marry a woman, אִשָּׁ֖ה (’iš·šāh) Noun - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_802.htm">Strong's 802: </a> Woman, wife, female but אִם־ (’im-) Conjunction <a href="/hebrew/strongs_518.htm">Strong's 518: </a> Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not she becomes displeasing לֹ֧א (lō) Adverb - Negative particle <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3808.htm">Strong's 3808: </a> Not, no to him because כִּי־ (kî-) Conjunction <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> A relative conjunction he finds מָ֤צָא (mā·ṣā) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4672.htm">Strong's 4672: </a> To come forth to, appear, exist, to attain, find, acquire, to occur, meet, be present some דָּבָ֔ר (dā·ḇār) Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1697.htm">Strong's 1697: </a> A word, a matter, thing, a cause indecency עֶרְוַ֣ת (‘er·waṯ) Noun - feminine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6172.htm">Strong's 6172: </a> Nakedness in her, בָהּ֙ (ḇāh) Preposition | third person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/.htm">Strong's Hebrew</a> he may write וְכָ֨תַב (wə·ḵā·ṯaḇ) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3789.htm">Strong's 3789: </a> To grave, to write her לָ֜הּ (lāh) Preposition | third person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/.htm">Strong's Hebrew</a> a certificate סֵ֤פֶר (sê·p̄er) Noun - masculine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5612.htm">Strong's 5612: </a> A missive, document, writing, book of divorce, כְּרִיתֻת֙ (kə·rî·ṯuṯ) Noun - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3748.htm">Strong's 3748: </a> A cutting, divorce hand it to וְנָתַ֣ן (wə·nā·ṯan) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5414.htm">Strong's 5414: </a> To give, put, set her, בְּיָדָ֔הּ (bə·yā·ḏāh) Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3027.htm">Strong's 3027: </a> A hand and send her away וְשִׁלְּחָ֖הּ (wə·šil·lə·ḥāh) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular | third person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7971.htm">Strong's 7971: </a> To send away, for, out from his house. מִבֵּיתֽוֹ׃ (mib·bê·ṯōw) Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1004.htm">Strong's 1004: </a> A house <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/deuteronomy/24-1.htm">Deuteronomy 24:1 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/deuteronomy/24-1.htm">Deuteronomy 24:1 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/deuteronomy/24-1.htm">Deuteronomy 24:1 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/deuteronomy/24-1.htm">Deuteronomy 24:1 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/deuteronomy/24-1.htm">Deuteronomy 24:1 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/deuteronomy/24-1.htm">Deuteronomy 24:1 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/deuteronomy/24-1.htm">Deuteronomy 24:1 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/deuteronomy/24-1.htm">Deuteronomy 24:1 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/deuteronomy/24-1.htm">Deuteronomy 24:1 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/deuteronomy/24-1.htm">Deuteronomy 24:1 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/24-1.htm">OT Law: Deuteronomy 24:1 When a man takes a wife (Deut. 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