These are some passages related to divorce and remarriage:
Genesis 2:24 – Marriage is Permanent: “Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.” The world translated as “cleave” is a translation of the Hebrew word “dabaq” which means to make a permanent alliance with another person. It is used elsewhere in the Bible in this context: Joshya 23:12, Ruth 1:14, and 2 Samuel 20:2. In its noun form, the word refers to soldering two pieces of metal together: making a permanent joint. Some theologians have suggested that this term refers to permanent actions: those that cannot be undone. Thus, the passage implies that divorce is
forbidden.
Deuteronomy 22:13-19 – Divorce is prohibited if the husband accuses the wife of not being a virgon: “If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her, And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid: Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate: And the damsel's father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hated her; And, , he hath given occasions of speech against her, saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city. And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him; And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days." If a man accuses his wife of not being a virgin when she married him, and she is able to prove that she was a virgin, then he had to pay her father 100 shekels of silver, and was prohibited from ever divorcing her. The passage continues, by saying that if she cannot prove her virginity, that she was stoned to death. Interestingly enough, this passage allows a husband to arrange the murder of his wife in certain circumstances, and thus obtain a divorce through her death.
Deuteronomy 22:28-29 – Divorce not allowed for seducers of virgins: "If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found; Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days." A man who engages in sexual intercourse with a virgin, and subsequently marries her, would never be permitted to divorce her.
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