Ulangan 24:1

24:1 If a man marries a woman and she does not please him because he has found something offensive ¹  in her, then he may draw up a divorce document, give it to her, and evict her from his house.

Ulangan 24:4

24:4 her first husband who divorced her is not permitted to remarry ²  her after she has become ritually impure, for that is offensive to the Lord. ³  You must not bring guilt on the land ⁴  which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.

[24:1]  ¹ tn Heb “nakedness of a thing.” The Hebrew phrase עֶרְוַת דָּבָר (’ervat davar) refers here to some gross sexual impropriety (see note on “indecent” in Deut 23:14). Though the term usually has to do only with indecent exposure of the genitals, it can also include such behavior as adultery (cf. Lev 18:6-18; 20:11, 17, 20-21; Ezek 22:10; 23:29; Hos 2:10).

[24:4]  ² tn Heb “to return to take her to be his wife.”

[24:4]  ³ sn The issue here is not divorce and its grounds per se but prohibition of remarriage to a mate whom one has previously divorced.

[24:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “cause the land to sin” (so KJV, ASV).