King James Version
Deuteronomy 24:2 in the King James Version says “And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's wife.” — study this verse from Deuteronomy chapter 24 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's wife.”
Deuteronomy 24:2 · KJV
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. some: Heb. matter of nakedness divorcement: Heb. cutting off
And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's wife.
And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife;
Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“And when she is departed out”
H3318to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim
“of his house”
H1004a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
“she may go”
H1980to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
“man's”
H376a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
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