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

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“Why then,” they asked, “did Moses command that a man give his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away?”(A)

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They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?

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

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

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And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.

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Divorce

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

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Divorce

31 “It has been said, ‘Anyone who divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce.’[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 5:31 Deut. 24:1

31 It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:

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Israel's Sin and the Servant's Obedience

50 Thus says the Lord:
“Where is (A)your mother's certificate of divorce,
    with which (B)I sent her away?
Or (C)which of my creditors is it
    to whom I have sold you?
(D)Behold, for your iniquities you were sold,
    and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.

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Israel’s Sin and the Servant’s Obedience

50 This is what the Lord says:

“Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce(A)
    with which I sent her away?
Or to which of my creditors
    did I sell(B) you?
Because of your sins(C) you were sold;(D)
    because of your transgressions your mother was sent away.

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50 Thus saith the Lord, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.

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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.

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I gave faithless Israel(A) her certificate of divorce(B) and sent her away because of all her adulteries. Yet I saw that her unfaithful sister Judah had no fear;(C) she also went out and committed adultery.

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And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.

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