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Complete Jewish Bible

Deuteronomy 24:2

She leaves his house, goes and becomes another man's wife;

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Divorce;   Marriage;   The Topic Concordance - Abomination;   Divorce;   Hate;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Divorce;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Poor;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Divorce;   Ethics;   Husband;   Women;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Divorce;   Marriage;   Sexuality, Human;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Divorce;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Marriage;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Crimes and Punishments;   Deuteronomy;   Leviticus;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Bill;   Divorce (2);   Matthew, Gospel According to;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Ammi;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Divorce;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Other Laws;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Divorce in Old Testament;   Divorce in New Testament;   Law in the Old Testament;   Righteousness;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Consent;   Divorce;   Geá¹­9309,Ḳiddushin;   Marriage;   Mishnah;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
If after leaving his house she goes and becomes another man’s wife,
Hebrew Names Version
When she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's [wife].
King James Version
And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's wife.
Lexham English Bible
and she goes from his house, and she goes out and becomes a wife for another man,
English Standard Version
and if she goes and becomes another man's wife,
New Century Version
After she leaves his house, she goes and marries another man,
New English Translation
When she has left him she may go and become someone else's wife.
Amplified Bible
and after she leaves his house, she goes and becomes another man's wife,
New American Standard Bible
and she leaves his house and goes and becomes another man's wife,
Geneva Bible (1587)
And when she is departed out of his house, & gone her way, and marrie with an other man,
Legacy Standard Bible
and she goes out of his house and goes and becomes another man's wife,
Contemporary English Version
Later she married another man,
Darby Translation
And she shall depart out of his house, and go away, and may become another man's wife.
Easy-to-Read Version
When she has left his house, she may go and become another man's wife.
George Lamsa Translation
And when she has left his house, and if she goes and becomes another mans wife,
Good News Translation
Then suppose she marries another man,
Literal Translation
and if she goes out from his house and goes and becomes another man's wife ,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yf whan she is gone out of his house, she go, and be another mans wyfe,
American Standard Version
And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's wife.
Bible in Basic English
And when she has gone away from him, she may become another man's wife.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And when she is departed out of his house, let her go and be another mans wyfe.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
and she departeth out of his house, and goeth and becometh another man's wife,
King James Version (1611)
And when shee is departed out of his house, she may goe and be another mans wife.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And if thou shouldest go into the vineyard of thy neighbour, thou shalt eat grapes sufficient to satisfy thy desire; but thou mayest not put them into a vessel.
English Revised Version
And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's wife.
Berean Standard Bible
If, after leaving his house, she goes and becomes another man's wife,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And whanne sche goith out, and weddith anothir hosebonde,
Young's Literal Translation
and she hath gone out of his house, and hath gone and been another man's,
Update Bible Version
And when she's departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's [wife].
Webster's Bible Translation
And when she hath departed from his house, she may go and be another man's [wife].
World English Bible
When she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's [wife].
New King James Version
when she has departed from his house, and goes and becomes another man's wife,
New Living Translation
When she leaves his house, she is free to marry another man.
New Life Bible
When she leaves his house, she may go and become another man's wife.
New Revised Standard
and goes off to become another man's wife.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, when she cometh forth out of his house, then may she go her way, and become another man's.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And when she is departed, and marrieth another husband,
Revised Standard Version
and if she goes and becomes another man's wife,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
and she leaves his house and goes and becomes another man's wife,

Contextual Overview

1 "Suppose a man marries a woman and consummates the marriage but later finds her displeasing, because he has found her offensive in some respect. He writes her a divorce document, gives it to her and sends her away from his house. 2 She leaves his house, goes and becomes another man's wife; 3 but the second husband dislikes her and writes her a get, gives it to her and sends her away from his house; or the second husband whom she married dies. 4 In such a case her first husband, who sent her away, may not take her again as his wife, because she is now defiled. It would be detestable to Adonai , and you are not to bring about sin in the land Adonai your God is giving you as your inheritance.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

she may go: Leviticus 21:7, Leviticus 21:14, Leviticus 22:13, Numbers 30:9, Ezekiel 44:22, Matthew 5:32, Mark 10:11, 1 Corinthians 7:15

Cross-References

Genesis 15:2
Avram replied, " Adonai , God, what good will your gifts be to me if I continue childless; and Eli‘ezer from Dammesek inherits my possessions?
Genesis 24:4
but that you will go to my homeland, to my kinsmen, to choose a wife for my son Yitz'chak."
Genesis 24:6
Avraham said to him, "See to it that you don't bring my son back there.
Genesis 24:8
But if the woman is unwilling to follow you, then you are released from your obligation under my oath. Just don't bring my son back there."
Genesis 24:9
The servant put his hand under the thigh of Avraham his master and swore to him concerning the matter.
Genesis 24:10
(iii) Then the servant took ten of his master's camels and all kinds of gifts from his master, got up and went to Aram-Naharayim, to Nachor's city.
Genesis 44:1
Then he ordered the manager of his household, "Fill the men's packs with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man's money just inside his pack.
Genesis 47:29
The time came when Isra'el was approaching death; so he called for his son Yosef and said to him, "If you truly love me, please put your hand under my thigh and pledge that, out of consideration for me, you will not bury me in Egypt.
1 Chronicles 29:24
All the leaders, the warrior-heroes and likewise the sons of King David submitted themselves to Shlomo the king.
1 Timothy 5:17
The leaders who lead well should be considered worthy of double honor, especially those working hard at communicating the Word and at teaching.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when she is departed out of his house,.... With her bill of divorce, by which departure out of his house it is notified to all:

she may go and be other man's [wife]; it was permitted her to marry another man, she being by her divorce freed from the law of her former husband; and who indeed, in express words contained in the divorce, gave her leave so to do; which ran thus,

"thou art in thine own hand, and hast power over thyself to go and marry any other man whom thou pleasest; and let no man hinder thee in my name, from this day forward and for ever; and, lo, thou art free to any man;''

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

In this and the next chapter certain particular rights and duties, domestic, social, and civil, are treated. The cases brought forward have often no definite connection, and seem selected in order to illustrate the application of the great principles of the Law in certain important events and circumstances.

These four verses contain only one sentence, and should be rendered thus: If a man hath taken a wife, etc., and given her a bill of divorcement and Deuteronomy 24:2 if she has departed out of his house and become another man’s wife; and Deuteronomy 24:3 if the latter husband hates her, then Deuteronomy 24:4 her former husband, etc.

Moses neither institutes nor enjoins divorce. The exact spirit of the passage is given in our Lord’s words to the Jews’, “Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives” Matthew 19:8. Not only does the original institution of marriage as recorded by Moses Genesis 2:24 set forth the perpetuity of the bond, but the verses before us plainly intimate that divorce, while tolerated for the time, contravenes the order of nature and of God. The divorced woman who marries again is “defiled” Deuteronomy 24:4, and is grouped in this particular with the adulteress (compare Leviticus 18:20). Our Lord then was speaking according to the spirit of the law of Moses when he declared, “Whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery” Matthew 19:9. He was speaking too not less according to the mind of the prophets (compare Malachi 2:14-16). But Moses could not absolutely put an end to a practice which was traditional, and common to the Jews with other Oriental nations. His aim is therefore to regulate and thus to mitigate an evil which he could not extirpate.


 
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