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John Gill's Exposition on Deuteronomy 24:3

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And [if] the latter husband hate her, etc.] Or less loves her than another woman, and she is disliked by him as she was by her former husband; and write her a bill off divorcement, and giveth [it] into her hand, and sendeth her out of his house: as he had by this law a permission, in like manner as her former husband had; (see Gill on “<052401>Deuteronomy 24:1”); or if her latter husband die, which took her [to be] his wife; and she survives him; as she is then by death loosed from the law of an husband, she may lawfully marry another man, but not her former husband, as follows.
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