Des pharisiens s’approchèrent et lui posèrent une question : Un homme a-t-il le droit de divorcer d’avec sa femme ?

Ils voulaient par là lui tendre un piège.

Il leur répondit : Quel commandement Moïse vous a-t-il donné ?

– Moïse, lui dirent-ils, a permis de divorcer d’avec sa femme, à condition de lui donner un certificat de divorce[a].

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Footnotes

  1. 10.4 Dt 24.1, 3.

Some Pharisees(A) came and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”

“What did Moses command you?” he replied.

They said, “Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce and send her away.”(B)

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And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him.

And he answered and said unto them, What did Moses command you?

And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.

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