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Bill of Divorce

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This is a brief cross-reference entry. For the full topic material click the following topic: Divorce.

A bill of divorce is the certificate the Mosaic legislation requires a husband to write and place in his wife's hand when he dismisses her — the documentary mechanism by which the broader scriptural treatment of divorce regulates, restrains, and constrains the practice from Deuteronomy through the prophets and into the gospel sayings.

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