divorcement

¶ When a man hath taken a wife and married her, and it come to passe that shee find no fauour in his eyes, because hee hath found some vncleannesse in her: then let him write her a bill of diuorcement, and giue it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

1611 marginal noteHebr. matter of nakednesse.

1611 marginal noteHebr. cutting off.

1611 marginal noteMatt. 5.31. and 19.7. mar.10.4.

And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of diuorcement, and giueth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house: Or if the latter husband die, which tooke her to be his wife,

¶ Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mothers diuorcement, whom I haue put away? or which of my creditours is it to whom I haue sold you? Behold, for your iniquities haue you solde your selues, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.

It hath beene said, Whosoeuer shall put away his wife, let him giue her a writing of diuorcement.

1611 marginal noteDeut. 24.1. luke 16.18. 1.cor. 7.10.

They say vnto him, Why did Moses then command to giue a writing of diuorcement, and to put her away?

1611 marginal noteDeut. 24.1.

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