A Law about Divorce

Moses said to Israel:

24 ^(A) Suppose a woman was divorced by her first husband because he found something disgraceful about her.^[a] He wrote out divorce papers, gave them to her, and sent her away. ² Later she married another man, ³ who then either divorced her in the same way or died. ⁴ Since she has slept with her second husband, she cannot marry her first husband again. Their marriage would pollute the land that the Lord your God is giving you, and he would be disgusted.

^7 (A) The Pharisees asked Jesus, “Why did Moses say a man could write out divorce papers and send his wife away?”

^4 (A) They answered, “Moses allows a man to write out divorce papers and send his wife away.”