However, the Israelites eventually ignored the spirit of the law and exploited this clause to get divorced on whatever basis suited their whims. By the fifth century B.C.E., they were dealing treacherously with the wives of their youth, divorcing them on all sorts of grounds. Jehovah firmly told them that he hated a divorcing.
इसी पृष्ठाधार पर यीशु ने उस प्रकार के तलाक़ की निन्दा की, जिस प्रकार से उसके दिनों में इस्राएली लोग तलाक़ का अभ्यास कर रहे थे ।