Mark 10:4
And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.
KJV
οἱ δὲ εἶπαν· ἐπέτρεψεν Μωϋσῆς βιβλίον ἀποστασίου γράψαι καὶ ἀπολῦσαι.
Greek NT
Qui dixerunt : Moyses permisit libellum repudii scribere, et dimittere.
Vulgate
And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.
ASV
Who said: Moses permitted to write a bill of divorce and to put her away.
Douay-Rheims
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In this verse
People
Moses
In the original Greek
10 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Μωσεύς
moseus
noun · 81×
βιβλίον
biblion
noun · 32×
γράφω
grapho
verb · 192×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
ἀπολύω
apoluo
verb · 67×
ἀποστάσιον
apostasion
noun · 3×
ἐπιτρέπω
epitrepo
verb · 18×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
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SBLGNT: Ἐπέτρεψεν Μωϋσῆς | WH/Treg/NIV: Ἐπέτρεψεν Μωϋσῆς
- Ἐπέτρεψεν Μωϋσῆς — SBLGNT
- Ἐπέτρεψεν Μωϋσῆς — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
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Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Theology of the Body · 3 passages
The Meaning of Man's Original Solitude In the last reflection of the present cycle we reached an introductory conclusion, taken from the words of Genesis on the creation of man as male and female. We reached these words, that is, the "beginning," to which the Lord Jesus referred in his talk on the indissolubility of marriage (cf. Mt 19:3-9; Mk 10:1-12). But the conclusion at w…
Original Innocence and Man's Historical State Today's meditation presupposes what has already been established by the various analyses made up to now. They sprang from the answer Jesus gave to his interlocutors (cf. Mt 19:3-9; Mk 10:1-12). They had asked him a question about the indissolubility and unity of marriage. The Master had urged them to consider carefully that which w…
The Knowledge-Generation Cycle and the Perspective of Death We are drawing to the end of the cycle of reflections wherein we have tried to follow Christ's appeal handed down to us by Matthew 19:3-9 and by Mark 10:1-12: "Have you not read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, `For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be…
Cross-references
- Deut 24:1 — 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
- Deut 24:1 — 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
- Isa 50:1 — Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves,
- Isa 50:1 — Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves,
- Jer 3:1 — They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man’s, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many
- Matt 1:19 — Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily.
- Matt 5:31 — It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:
- Matt 19:7 — They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?
- Matt 19:7 — They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?