 | 1922
...eyes because he hath found some uncleanness ' n her, then let him write her a bill of divorcement and give it in her hand and send her out of his house. Gen. xvi. 3. Gen. xxi. 14. • Deut. xxviii. 56. While the doctors are not of one mind as to the intendment... | |
 | Susan Brownell Anthony - 1874 - 212 pages
...would the husband, at his own pleasure, have been allowed to " write his wife a bill of divorcement and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house" ? Would women in Turkey or Persia have made it a heinous, if not capital, offence for a wife to be... | |
 | Kansas Medical Society - 1910
...there." In Deuteronomy, 24th chapter, we read: "If a man takes a wife and have her and she find not favor in his eyes, for some uncleanness, he shall write...give it in her hand, and send her out of his house." From Numbers, 5th chapter, we learn that the Israelites were commanded to "cast out of the camp every... | |
 | John Milton - 1985 - 462 pages
...his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanesse in her, let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house, &c. This Law, if the words of Christ may be admitted into our beleef, shall never while the world stands,... | |
 | John R. Rice - 1980 - 398 pages
...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. And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's wife." Here it is clear... | |
 | Merlin Stone - 1990 - 265 pages
...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.” As we read previously, under the Levite law only the husband could ask for or demand divorce; in fact,... | |
 | Elizabeth Cady Stanton - 1993 - 217 pages
...come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. 2 And when she is departed out of bis house, she may go and be another man's wife. 3 And if the latter... | |
 | William Sims Bainbridge - 1997 - 474 pages
...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.” This biblical verse says nothing about what favor he has in her eyes, or how she might send him out... | |
 | Sally Berkovic - 1999 - 280 pages
...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.' 3 The Talmud devotes several tractates to the legal status of women, including niddab (rules of sexual... | |
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If a man take a wife, and have her, and she find not favour in his eyes, for some uncleanness : he shall write a bill of divorce, and shall give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. 
