Deu 24:1-4, Jer 3:1, 8, Hos 2:2-4, Mar 10:4-12 | ESV | STEP | 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 certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house , and she departs out of his house,

1 “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 ^ahe writes her a certificate 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 man hates her and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter man dies, who took her to be his wife, 4 then ^bher former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after she has been defiled, for that is an abomination before the Lord. And you shall not bring sin upon the land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance.

Jeremiah 3:1

1 ^c“If ^{▼▼Septuagint, Syriac; Hebrew Saying, “If} a man divorces his wife
and she goes from him
and becomes another man’s wife,
will he return to her?
^eWould not that land be greatly polluted?
^fYou have played the whore with many lovers;
and would you return to me?

declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 3:8

8 She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, ^gI had sent her away with ^ha decree of divorce. ⁱYet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she too went ^jand played the whore.

Hosea 2:2-4

2 “Plead with your mother, plead—
for ^kshe is not my wife,
and I am not her husband—
that she put away ^lher whoring from her face,
and her adultery from between her breasts;
3 lest ^mI strip her naked
and make her as ⁿin the day she was born,
and ^omake her like a wilderness,
and make her like a parched land,
and kill her with thirst.
4 ^pUpon her children also I will have no mercy,
^qbecause they are children of whoredom.

Mark 10:4-12

4 They said, ^r“Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away.” 5 And Jesus said to them, “Because of your ^shardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. 6 But ^tfrom the beginning of creation, ‘God made them ^umale and female.’ 7 ^v‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, ^{▼▼Some manuscripts omit and hold fast to his wife} 8 and ^xthe two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. 9 ^yWhat therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

10 And in the house the disciples asked him again about this matter. 11 And he said to them, ^z“Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her, 12 and ^aaif she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”