Deuteronomy 24:1-4

Bible Text

When a man takes a wife and marries her, then it shall be, if she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a certificate of divorce, put it in her hand, and send her out of his house. When she has departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife. If the latter husband hates her, and writes her a certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house; or if the latter husband dies, who took her to be his wife; her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife after she is defiled; for that would be an abomination to Yahweh. You shall not cause the land to sin, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.

Egypt was the land from which the Lord delivered Israel in the exodus, establishing them as his covenant people. In this divorce law, Egypt’s mention recalls that Israel’s family and legal life is to reflect the holiness of the God who redeemed them.

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Deuteronomy 24:1-4 mentions Egypt.

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