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her first husband who divorced her is not permitted to remarry[a] her after she has become ritually impure, for that is offensive to the Lord.[b] You must not bring guilt on the land[c] that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 24:4 tn Heb “to return to take her to be his wife.”
  2. Deuteronomy 24:4 sn The issue here is not divorce and its grounds per se but prohibition of remarriage to a mate whom one has previously divorced.
  3. Deuteronomy 24:4 tn Heb “cause the land to sin” (so KJV, ASV).