Certificate of Divorce

2 sources

Aquifer Open Bible Dictionary by Mission Mutual, adapted from the Tyndale Open Bible Dictionary (2023)

An official document stating the end of a marriage between a husband and wife.

Dictionary of Bible Themes by Martin H. Manser (1999)

A certificate of divorce was required under Mosaic law

MRK 10:4 parallel MAT 19:7 The certificate provided a divorced wife with some legal protection and permitted her to remarry. See also DEU 24:1–24:4; HOS 2:2 These words may have been adapted from a divorce bill; MAT 5:31

God gave his unfaithful people a certificate of divorce

JER 3:8 See also ISA 50:1 Unlike Israel, Judah had been given no certificate of divorce. The exile is thus portrayed as only a temporary separation.