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Nave Topical Bible
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• Bill of Divorce
Thompson Chain Reference
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The Topic Concordance
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Treasury of Biblical Knowledge
• Marriage Custom & Yoke, No Sons: & Divorce
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Torrey Topical Textbook
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Dictionaries
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Bridgeway Bible Dictionary
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Baker's Evangelical Dictionary
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Charles Buck Dictionary
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Easton's Bible Dictionary
• Divorce
Fausset Bible Dictionary
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Holman Bible Dictionary
• Divorce
• Certificate of Divorce
• Bill of Divorcement
Hastings' BibleDictionary
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Hastings' NT Dictionary
• Divorce (2)
• Divorce
King James Dictionary
• Divorcement
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Morrish Bible Dictionary
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• Bill of Divorce
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
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• Divorce in the New Testament
• Divorce
People's Bible Dictionary
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Smith Bible Dictionary
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Vines' Expository Dictionary
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Webster Dictionary
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Watson's Theological Dictionary
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
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McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Divorce, Christian Law of.
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The Catholic Encyclopedia
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• Divorce (in Moral Theology)
The Jewish Encyclopedia
• Bill of Divorce
• Divorce
Lexicons
• ܕ݁ܽܘܠܳܠܳܐ
• ἀπολύω
• ἀποστάσιον
• ἀφίημι , ἐναφίημι
• גָּרַשׁ , גָּרַשׁ
• כְּרִיתותּ
• שָׁלַח

This was explained by the Lord. Moses had suffered a man to put away his wife for any cause, as we see in Deuteronomy 24:1,3; but the Lord maintained God's original ordinance that what God had joined together, man had no right to put asunder, therefore a man must not put away his wife except for fornication, when she herself had broken the bond. Matthew 5:31,32; Matthew 19:3-9 . A BILL OF DIVORCEMENT must be given to the woman, the drawing up of which, and having it witnessed, was some little check upon a man's hasty temper.

Divorce is used symbolically to express God's action in putting away Israel, who had been grossly unfaithful, and giving her a bill of divorcement. Isaiah 50:1; Jeremiah 3:8 .