“And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's wife.”
King James Version (KJV)
24:1 Some uncleanness - Some hateful thing, some distemper of body or quality of mind not observed before marriage: or some light carriage, as this phrase commonly signifies, but not amounting to adultery. Let him write - This is not a command as some of the Jews understood it, nor an allowance and approbation, but merely a permission of that practice for prevention of greater mischiefs, and this only until the time of reformation, till the coming of the Messiah when things were to return to their first institution and purest condition.
24:4 May not - This is the punishment of his levity and injustice in putting her away without sufficient cause, which by this offer he now acknowledgeth. Defiled - Not absolutely, as if her second marriage were a sin, but with respect to her first husband, to whom she is as a defiled or unclean woman, that is, forbidden things; forbidden are accounted and called unclean, #Jud 13:7|, because they may no more be touched or used than an unclean thing. Thou shalt not cause the land to sin - Thou shalt not suffer such lightness to be practised, lest the people be polluted, and the land defiled and accursed by that means.
And when shee is departed out of his house, she may goe and be another mans wife.
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan
and she leaves his house and goes and becomes another man's {wife,}
- New American Standard Version (1995)
And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's `wife'.
- American Standard Version (1901)
And when she has gone away from him, she may become another man's wife.
- Basic English Bible
And she shall depart out of his house, and go away, and may become another man's wife.
- Darby Bible
And when she hath departed from his house, she may go and be another man's wife.
- Webster's Bible
When she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's [wife].
- World English Bible
and she hath gone out of his house, and hath gone and been another man's,
- Youngs Literal Bible
and she departeth out of his house, and goeth and becometh another man's wife,
- Jewish Publication Society Bible