Ulangan 24:4

24:4 her first husband who divorced her is not permitted to remarry ¹  her after she has become ritually impure, for that is offensive to the Lord. ²  You must not bring guilt on the land ³  which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.

Ulangan 26:14

26:14 I have not eaten anything when I was in mourning, or removed any of it while ceremonially unclean, or offered any of it to the dead; ⁴  I have obeyed you ⁵  and have done everything you have commanded me.

[24:4]  ¹ tn Heb “to return to take her to be his wife.”

[24:4]  ² 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]  ³ tn Heb “cause the land to sin” (so KJV, ASV).

[26:14]  ⁴ sn These practices suggest overtones of pagan ritual, all of which the confessor denies having undertaken. In Canaan they were connected with fertility practices associated with harvest time. See E. H. Merrill, Deuteronomy (NAC), 335-36.

[26:14]  ⁵ tn Heb “the Lord my God.” See note on “he” in 26:2.