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Mark 10:4

Moses
Marriage

2 And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him.

3 And he answered and said unto them, What did Moses command you?

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

5 And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.

6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.

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BSB
They answered, “Moses permitted a man to write his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away.”
KJV
And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.
WEB
They said, “Moses allowed a certificate of divorce to be written, and to divorce her.”
ASV
And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.
DARBY
And they said, Moses allowed to write a bill of divorce, and to put away.
BLB
And they said, “Moses allowed [us] to write a roll of divorce and to send [her] away.”
ÅB
De sa: Moses har gitt lov til å skrive et skilsmissebrev og skille seg fra henne.
OTB
De svarte, “Moses tillot en mann å skrive et skilsmissebrev og sende henne bort.”
B1930
De sa: Moses har gitt lov til å skrive et skilsmissebrev og skille sig fra henne.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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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.

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  • Matthew 5:31–32

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

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  • Matthew 19:7

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

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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