Divorce and Remarriage

24 ^(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.^[a] So he writes out divorce papers, gives them to her, and sends her away from his home. ² Then suppose she marries another man, ³ 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. ⁴ In either case, her first husband is not to marry her again; he is to consider her defiled. If he married her again, it would be offensive to the Lord. You are not to commit such a terrible sin in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

^7 (A)The Pharisees asked him, “Why, then, did Moses give the law for a man to hand his wife a divorce notice and send her away?”

^4 (A)Their answer was, “Moses gave permission for a man to write a divorce notice and send his wife away.”