⁷ They said to him, ^(A)“Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce and to send her away?”

⁴ They said, ^(A)“Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away.”

Divorce

^31 (A)“It was also said, ^(B)‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’

Israel's Sin and the Servant's Obedience

⁸ She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, ^(A)I had sent her away with ^(B)a decree of divorce. ^(C)Yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she too went ^(D)and played the whore.