24:1
This section does not say anything about the grounds for divorce, rather it is protecting the woman who has been divorced. Matt 19:1-12 records a discussion between Jesus and the Pharisees, there were those who took this verse in Deuteronomy as permitting divorce in almost any situation, Jesus gives the correct interpretation! The Law accepts that divorce will happen and is seeking to mitigate the effects. The certificate means the woman would not be disgraced and could marry again.
24:2-4
The next three verses are then dealing with the situation where the second marriage ends, either through divorce or death. In that case the first husband must not remarry the woman. The reason given is that she “has been defiled”. Why is this? It is possibly because by divorcing her in the first place, the man had forced the woman to remarry.
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