Deuteronomy 24:1 — King James Version← Study notes
“When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his 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.”
Deuteronomy 24:1 — Hebrew Interlinear
Hebrew · Deuteronomy 24:124 words
כִּיkîRelative conjunction
יִקַּחyiqaḥTake
אִישׁʾîšMan
אִשָּׁהʾišāhWoman
וּבְעָלָהּûvəʿālāhAnd be master
וְהָיָהwəhāyāhAnd exist
אִםʾimLo!
לֹאlōʾNot
תִמְצָאtiməṣāʾCome
חֵןḥēnGraciousness
בְּעֵינָיוbəʿênāywIn eye
כִּיkîRelative conjunction
מָצָאmāṣāʾCome
בָהּvāhIn
עֶרְוַתʿerəwatNudity
דָּבָרdāvārWord
וְכָתַבwəḵātavAnd grave
לָהּlāhTo
סֵפֶרsēp̄erWriting
כְּרִיתֻתkərîtutCutting
וְנָתַןwənātanAnd give
בְּיָדָהּbəyādāhIn hand
וְשִׁלְּחָהּwəšiləḥāhAnd send
מִבֵּיתוֹmibêtwōFrom a house
ℹWords read right to left. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.
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