◄ Deuteronomy 24:3 ►
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Good News Translation
and he also decides that he doesn't want her, so he also writes out divorce papers, gives them to her, and sends her away from his home. Or suppose her second husband dies.

New Revised Standard Version
Then suppose the second man dislikes her, writes her a bill of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house (or the second man who married her dies);

Contemporary English Version
who then either divorced her in the same way or died.

New American Bible
and the second husband, too, comes to dislike her and he writes out a bill of divorce and hands it to her, thus dismissing her from his house, or if this second man who has married her dies,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he also hateth her, and hath given her a bill of divorce, and hath sent her out of his house or is dead:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he also hateth her, and hath given her a bill of divorce, and hath sent her out of his house or is dead:

Context
Law of Divorce
…2And when she is departed, and marrieth another husband, 3And he also hateth her, and hath given her a bill of divorce, and hath sent her out of his house or is dead:4The former husband cannot take her again to wife: because she is defiled, and is become abominable before the Lord: lest thou cause thy land to sin, which the Lord thy God shall give thee to possess.…
Cross References
Matthew 5:31
And it hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a bill of divorce.

Mark 10:4
Who said: Moses permitted to write a bill of divorce and to put her away.

Deuteronomy 24:2
And when she is departed, and marrieth another husband,

Deuteronomy 24:4
The former husband cannot take her again to wife: because she is defiled, and is become abominable before the Lord: lest thou cause thy land to sin, which the Lord thy God shall give thee to possess.

Isaiah 50:1
Thus saith the Lord: What is this bill of the divorce of your mother, with which I have put her away? or who is my creditor, to whom I sold you: behold you are sold for your iniquities, and for your wicked deeds have I put your mother away.

Jeremiah 3:8
That because the rebellious Israel had played the harlot, I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce: yet her treacherous sister Juda was not afraid, but went and played the harlot also herself.

Deuteronomy 24:2
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