When a man takes a wife and marries her, then it shall be, if she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and put it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
⛓ Read Deuteronomy 24 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Quotation2
A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.
'Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce' — direct citation of the Mosaic divorce provision Jesus qualifies.
High confidenceThe Pharisees' 'Moses commanded us to give her a bill of divorce' directly cites the Mosaic divorce permission of Deuteronomy 24:1 ('let him write her a bill of divorcement'); the crux of the dispute.
High confidence