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Deuteronomy 24:1-3
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Deuteronomy 24:1-3
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Laws concerning Marriage and Divorce
24 [a]“When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a bill of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, and she departs out of his house, 2 and if she goes and becomes another man’s wife, 3 and the latter husband dislikes her and writes her a bill of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter husband dies, who took her to be his wife,
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- 24.1 Divorce was permitted in Old Testament times on account of “hardness of heart”; Jesus, however, insists that it was not in the original plan of God (Mt 19.7-9).
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