Translations:Didn't the law under the Sinai Covenant allow divorce for any cause?/9/en

1. The Sinai Covenant (implicitly) required a husband who wanted to divorce his wife because of some "nakedness" to give her a writ of divorcement. Unlike modern divorce, this Biblical divorce document was not issued by a civil judge, and it did not require a public hearing in front of civil government officials. Notice in Matthew 1:19, that if a divorcement action were required by Biblical law to be public, then Joseph (being a righteous man) would have intended to do it publicly, not "privately" (λάθρᾳ). The divorce certificate was created by the husband, or a scribe he had hired, and simply recorded a legal assertion of the husband that the marriage covenant was broken because of some "nakedness" (which was probably specified in the document). According to Christopher Wright: