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Sort of like Jesus saying that not a jot nor tittle of the law shall be changed, and then saying that men can't divorce their wives even though Deuteronomy - the law - tells them how to. So, Jesus changed THAT jot and tittle. The real lesson there is that what's written in Dueteronomy that conflicted with Jesus actually was NOT inspired by God, in that particular portion, and was a purely human tradition creeping in.

The LAW really DOESN'T say how to do it.

NIV Genesis 2:24
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

NIV Numbers 30:1-16
1. Moses said to the heads of the tribes of Israel: "This is what the LORD commands:
2. When a man makes a vow to the LORD or takes an oath to obligate himself by a pledge, he must not break his word but must do everything he said.
3. "When a young woman still living in her father's house makes a vow to the LORD or obligates herself by a pledge
4. and her father hears about her vow or pledge but says nothing to her, then all her vows and every pledge by which she obligated herself will stand.
5. But if her father forbids her when he hears about it, none of her vows or the pledges by which she obligated herself will stand; the LORD will release her because her father has forbidden her.
6. "If she marries after she makes a vow or after her lips utter a rash promise by which she obligates herself
7. and her husband hears about it but says nothing to her, then her vows or the pledges by which she obligated herself will stand.
8. But if her husband forbids her when he hears about it, he nullifies the vow that obligates her or the rash promise by which she obligates herself, and the LORD will release her.
9. "Any vow or obligation taken by a widow or divorced woman will be binding on her.
10. "If a woman living with her husband makes a vow or obligates herself by a pledge under oath
11. and her husband hears about it but says nothing to her and does not forbid her, then all her vows or the pledges by which she obligated herself will stand.
12. But if her husband nullifies them when he hears about them, then none of the vows or pledges that came from her lips will stand. Her husband has nullified them, and the LORD will release her.
13. Her husband may confirm or nullify any vow she makes or any sworn pledge to deny herself.
14. But if her husband says nothing to her about it from day to day, then he confirms all her vows or the pledges binding on her. He confirms them by saying nothing to her when he hears about them.
15. If, however, he nullifies them some time after he hears about them, then he is responsible for her guilt."
16. These are the regulations the LORD gave Moses concerning relationships between a man and his wife, and between a father and his young daughter still living in his house.

The LAW (the Covenant)

NIV Deuteronomy 5:4-22
  4. The LORD spoke to you face to face out of the fire on the mountain.
  5. (At that time I stood between the LORD and you to declare to you the word of the LORD, because you were afraid of the fire and did not go up the mountain.) And he said:
  6. "I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
  7. "You shall have no other gods before me.
  8. "You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.
  9. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,
10. but showing love to a thousand [ generations] of those who love me and keep my commandments.
11. "You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name.
12. "Observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy, as the LORD your God has commanded you.
13. Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
14. but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your ox, your donkey or any of your animals, nor the alien within your gates, so that your manservant and maidservant may rest, as you do.
15. Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and that the LORD your God brought you out of there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the LORD your God has commanded you to observe the Sabbath day.
16. "Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and that it may go well with you in the land the LORD your God is giving you.
17. "You shall not murder.
18. "You shall not commit adultery.
19. "You shall not steal.
20. "You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
21. "You shall not covet your neighbor's wife. You shall not set your desire on your neighbor's house or land, his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor."
22. These are the commandments the LORD proclaimed in a loud voice to your whole assembly there on the mountain from out of the fire, the cloud and the deep darkness; and he added nothing more. Then he wrote them on two stone tablets and gave them to me.

NIV Hebrews 9:1-4
1. Now the first covenant had regulations for worship and also an earthly sanctuary.
2. A tabernacle was set up. In its first room were the lampstand, the table and the consecrated bread; this was called the Holy Place.
3. Behind the second curtain was a room called the Most Holy Place,
4. which had the golden altar of incense and the gold-covered ark of the covenant. This ark contained the gold jar of manna, Aaron's staff that had budded, and the stone tablets of the covenant.

(Anything else is not The LAW.)

NIV Leviticus 21:7
"`They must not marry women defiled by prostitution or divorced from their husbands, because priests are holy to their God.

NIV Leviticus 21:14
He must not marry a widow, a divorced woman, or a woman defiled by prostitution, but only a virgin from his own people,

NIV Leviticus 22:13
But if a priest's daughter becomes a widow or is divorced, yet has no children, and she returns to live in her father's house as in her youth, she may eat of her father's food. No unauthorized person, however, may eat any of it.

NIV Numbers 30:9
"Any vow or obligation taken by a widow or divorced woman will be binding on her.

NIV Deuteronomy 22:19
They shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the girl's father, because this man has given an Israelite virgin a bad name. She shall continue to be his wife; he must not divorce her as long as he lives.

NIV Deuteronomy 22:28-29
28. If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered,
29. he shall pay the girl's father fifty shekels of silver. He must marry the girl, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.

NIV Deuteronomy 24:1-4
1. If a man marries a woman who becomes displeasing to him because he finds something indecent about her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce, gives it to her and sends her from his house,
2. and if after she leaves his house she becomes the wife of another man,
3. and her second husband dislikes her and writes her a certificate of divorce, gives it to her and sends her from his house, or if he dies,
4. then her first husband, who divorced her, is not allowed to marry her again after she has been defiled. That would be detestable in the eyes of the LORD. Do not bring sin upon the land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.

NIV Isaiah 50:1
This is what the LORD says: "Where is your mother's certificate of divorce with which I sent her away? Or to which of my creditors did I sell you? Because of your sins you were sold; because of your transgressions your mother was sent away.

NIV Jeremiah 3:1
"If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and marries another man, should he return to her again? Would not the land be completely defiled? But you have lived as a prostitute with many lovers-- would you now return to me?" declares the LORD.

NIV Malachi 2:16
"I hate divorce," says the LORD God of Israel, "and I hate a man's covering himself with violence as well as with his garment," says the LORD Almighty. So guard yourself in your spirit, and do not break faith.

NIV Matthew 5:31-32
31. "It has been said, `Anyone who divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce.'
32. But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, causes her to become an adulteress, and anyone who marries the divorced woman commits adultery.

NIV Matthew 19:3-9
3. Some Pharisees came to him to test him. They asked, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any and every reason?"
4. "Haven't you read," he replied, "that at the beginning the Creator `made them male and female,'
5. and said, `For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh' ?
6. So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate."
7. "Why then," they asked, "did Moses command that a man give his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away?"
8. Jesus replied, "Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning.
9. I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, and marries another woman commits adultery."

NIV Mark 10:2-9
2. Some Pharisees came and tested him by asking, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?"
3. "What did Moses command you?" he replied.
4. They said, "Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce and send her away."
5. "It was because your hearts were hard that Moses wrote you this law," Jesus replied.
6. "But at the beginning of creation God `made them male and female.'
7. `For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,
8. and the two will become one flesh.' So they are no longer two, but one.
9. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate."

NIV 1 Corinthians 7:10-11
10. To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband.
11. But if she does, she must remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband. And a husband must not divorce his wife.