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Deuteronomy 24:1

The New Testament’s use of Deuteronomy

2 places · 1 kind of echo

The source

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.

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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.

Matt 5:31-32

'Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce' — direct citation of the Mosaic divorce provision Jesus qualifies.

High confidence
Matt 19:3-9

The 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
Elsewhere in Deuteronomy 24
Deuteronomy 24:1-4 3Deuteronomy 24:7 2Deuteronomy 24:14-15 4Deuteronomy 24:17 4Deuteronomy 24:19-21 2