Key Verse Spotlight
Deuteronomy 24:2 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's {wife}.”
Deuteronomy 24:2
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give {it} in her hand, and send her out of his house. {some...: Heb. matter of nakedness} {divorcement: Heb. cutting off}
And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's {wife}.
And {if} the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth {it} in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her {to be} his wife;
Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that {is} abomination before the LORD: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee {for} an inheritance.
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