Mark 10:4 · KJV
“And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put {her} away.”
— Mark 10:4
And he answered and said unto them, What did Moses command you?
And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.
Mark 10 — Context
And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away {his} wife? tempting him.
3And he answered and said unto them, What did Moses command you?
4And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put {her} away.
5And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.
6But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 24:1-4
When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give {it} in her hand, and send her out of his house. {some...: Heb. matter of nakedness} {divorcement: Heb. cutting off}
Matthew 5:31-32
It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:
Matthew 19:7
They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?
Isaiah 50:1
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.
Matthew 1:19
Then Joseph her husband, being a just {man}, and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily.
Jeremiah 3:1
They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD. {They say: Heb. Saying}
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