Deuteronomy 24:1
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Laws concerning Marriage and Divorce
24 “Suppose a man enters into marriage with a woman but she does not please him because he finds something objectionable about her, so he writes her a certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house;
Read full chapter
Deuteronomy 24:3
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
3 Then suppose the second man dislikes her, writes her a certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house (or the second man who married her dies):
Read full chapter
Deuteronomy 32:30
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
30 How could one have routed a thousand
and two put a myriad to flight,
unless their Rock had sold them,
the Lord had given them up?(A)
Isaiah 48:8
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
8 You have never heard; you have never known;
from of old your ear has not been opened.
For I knew that you would act very treacherously
and that from birth you were called a rebel.(A)
Isaiah 52:3
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
3 For thus says the Lord: You were sold for nothing, and you shall be redeemed without money.(A)
Read full chapter
Isaiah 54:6
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
6 For the Lord has called you
like a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit,
like the wife of a man’s youth when she is cast off,
says your God.(A)
Isaiah 54:7
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
7 For a brief moment I abandoned you,
but with great compassion I will gather you.(A)
Jeremiah 3:8
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
8 She[a] saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, I had sent her away with a decree of divorce, yet her false sister Judah did not fear, but she also went and prostituted herself.(A)
Read full chapterFootnotes
- 3.8 Gk mss Syr: Heb I
New Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition. Copyright © 2021 National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.