2 Machabæorum 10:4

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

Qui dixerunt: Moyses permisit libellum repudii scribere, et dimittere.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Simon Chanan�us, et Judas Iscariotes, qui et tradidit eum.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Qui dixerunt: "Moyses permisit libellum repudii scribere et dimittere".

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 24:1-4, Isaiah 50:1, Jeremiah 3:1, Matthew 1:19, Matthew 5:31, Matthew 5:32, Matthew 19:7

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 31:9 - Moses

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they said,.... By way of reply,

Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away, Moses did not command them to divorce their wives, only suffered them to do so: and gave orders that if they could not bear that they should live with them, but would divorce them, that they should give them a bill, which should certify, they were so divorced, and then send them out of their houses, free to marry other men; this law, or permission, is in Deuteronomy 24:1, of the form of a bill of divorcement,

Deuteronomy 24:1- :.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See this question about divorce explained in the notes at Matthew 19:1-12.

Mark 10:12

And if a woman shall put away her husband - It would seem, from this, that a woman, among the Jews, had the power of separating herself from her husband, yet this right is not given her by the law of Moses. There is not, however, any positive evidence that females often claimed or exercised this right. Cases had occurred, indeed, in which it had been done. The wife of Herod had rejected her former husband and married Herod. And though instances of this kind “might” have been attempted to be defended by the example of Pagans, yet our Saviour was desirous of showing them that it did not free them from the charge of adultery. The apostles were going forth to teach Pagan nations, and it was proper for Christ to teach them how to act in such cases, and to show them that they were cases of real adultery.