A wife is not to depart from her husband.

When Yahushua spoke of the dangers of committing adultery in our hearts, He also gave similar admonition about cutting of our hand or eye if it causes us to sin. He is telling us how very important it is to avoid sin, and adultery in particular. He gives us two ways of how adultery was being committed in that very generation:

1) Through ignoring the 10th commandment which forbids lusting after your neighbor's wife. 
2) Through divorce and remarriage.

It is these kinds of dangers that Yahushua is warning us about. In fact, Yahushua made the same statements about plucking out your eye and your hand if necessary if it causes you to sin when He spoke of adultery in Matthew 5:

Matthew 5:27-32 You have heard that it was said to those of old, 'You shall not commit adultery.' 28 "But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 29 "If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell. 30 "And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell. 31 " Furthermore it has been said, 'Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.' 32 "But I say to you that whoever divorces his wife for any reason except sexual immorality causes her to commit adultery; and whoever marries a woman who is divorced commits adultery. 

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1 Corinthians 7:10 , 11

Now to the married I command, yet not I but the Master: A wife is not to depart from her husband. 11 But even if she does depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband. And a husband is not to divorce his wife. 

Paul's statements that a wife is not to depart from her husband and a husband is not to divorce his wife is certainly very much in line with what Yahushua was saying here. The Master Yahushua has certainly commanded us not to separate what Elohim has joined together. In fact, Yahushua stated several times that if one were to separate what Elohim has joined together and marry another, it is committing adultery:

Matthew 19:9 And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery."  

Matthew 5:32 But I say to you that whoever divorces his wife for any reason except sexual immorality causes her to commit adultery; and whoever marries a woman who is divorced commits adultery. 

Mark 10:11-12 So He said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her. 12 "And if a woman divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery." 

Luke 16:18 Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced from her husband commits adultery. 

For this reason, Paul said "I command, yet not I but the Master" and also said "but even if she does depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband". She would have to remain unmarried in order to avoid committing adultery against her husband. So Paul clearly stated that there is to be no divorce and remarriage at all! 

Here is EXACTLY what I was wondering about a few days ago.

The part in the law, where (supposedly) divorce waspermitted, The Elijah List's indepth Hebraic study clearly shows it is not as it seems in the King James Version(though of all the popular English versions King James is by far the best)

In the above two verses, notice that the Pharisees said "Why did Moses command.." to give a certificate of divorce, but Yahushua said that Moshe "suffered (permitted) you to divorce your wives."

I find this to be quite interesting and I think it warrants an investigation as to whether divorce was commanded or permitted.

The scripture in question is Deuteronomy 24. Let's first examine these verses in King James Version:

Deuteronomy 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 give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

Deuteronomy 24:2 - And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's wife.

Notice it says here, "let him write" her a bill of divorcement. "Let him write" is actually a mistranslation of the Hebrew word "w'katab".

The w' at the beginning of the word is a particle conjunction, commonly translated "and".

Also, it says in this translation, "she may go" and be another man's wife. The word translated "she may go" is mistranslation of "w'halkah" because it ignores the particle injunction completely.

I'm far from being alone in this assessment. Later translations recognized thisand made the necessary corrections:

(New King James) Deuteronomy 24:1 "When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens that she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some uncleanness in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house, 2 "when she has departed from his house, and goes and becomes another man's wife,

(New Revised Standard) Deuteronomy 24:1 Suppose a man enters into marriage with a woman, but she does not please him because he finds something objectionable about her, and so he writes her a certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house; she then leaves his house 2 and goes off to become another man's wife.

(New International Version) Deuteronomy 24:1 If a man marries a woman who becomes displeasing to him because he finds something indecent about her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce, gives it to her and sends her from his house, 2 and if after she leaves his house she becomes the wife of another man,

(The Scriptures) Deuteronomy 24:1 "When a man takes a wife and shall marry her, then it shall be, if she finds no favour in his eyes because he has found a matter of uncoveredness in her, and he shall write her a certificate of divorce, and put it in her hand, and send her out of his house, 2 and if she left his house and went and became another man's wife,

(New American Standard) Deuteronomy 24:1 "When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens that she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out from his house, 2 and she leaves his house and goes and becomes another man's wife,

The reason why this is important is because it completely changes the meaning of Deuteronomy 24.

Rather than the scripture being a ruling on whether or not divorce and remarriage is permissible ("let him write her a bill of divorcement" and "she may go and be another man's wife"), or even for what reasons divorce would be permissible, it actually is a rulingon whether a man can take back his divorced wife after she has been married to another man.

Read it with this in mind:

(New American Standard)

Deuteronomy 24:1 "When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens that she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out from his house,

Deuteronomy 24:2 and she leaves his house and goes and becomes another man's wife,

Deuteronomy 24:3 and if the latter husband turns against her and writes her a certificate of divorce and 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,

Deuteronomy 24:4 then her former husband who sent her away is not allowed to take her again to be his wife, since she has been defiled; for that is an abomination before Yahweh, and you shall not bring sin on the land which Yahweh your Elohim gives you as an inheritance. 

So the issue here is not one of whether Yahweh agrees with divorcing, or even the reasons for which a man may divorce his wife, but whether a man can take back his former wife after she married someone else.

So Yahweh is commenting on what to do if "Divorce happens"

Even in the Torah, a woman who remarried after a divorce was called "defiled":

Deuteronomy 24:1-4 "When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens that she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some uncleanness in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house, 2 "when she has departed from his house, and goes and becomes another man's wife, 3 "if the latter husband detests 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 as his wife, 4 "then her former husband who divorced her must not take her back to be his wife after she has been defiled; for that is an abomination before Yahweh, and you shall not bring sin on the land which Yahweh your Elohim is giving you as an inheritance.