Marc 10:4

4 Moïse, dirent-ils, a permis d'écrire une lettre de divorce et de répudier.

Marc 10:4 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 10:4

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, (See Gill on Matthew 5:31).

Marc 10:4 In-Context

2 Les pharisiens l'abordèrent; et, pour l'éprouver, ils lui demandèrent s'il est permis à un homme de répudier sa femme.
3 Il leur répondit: Que vous a prescrit Moïse?
4 Moïse, dirent-ils, a permis d'écrire une lettre de divorce et de répudier.
5 Et Jésus leur dit: C'est à cause de la dureté de votre coeur que Moïse vous a donné ce précepte.
6 Mais au commencement de la création, Dieu fit l'homme et la femme;
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