4 then may her first husband who sent her away not again take her to become his wife, after that she hath been defiled, for that were, an abomination, before Yahweh,––lest thou bring sin upon the land which Yahweh thy God is giving unto thee for an inheritance.
Deuteronomy 24:4 Cross References - Rotherham
Leviticus 18:24-28
24 Do not make yourselves unclean, in any of these things,––For, in all these things, have the nations made themselves unclean, whom, I, am sending out from before you.
25 Therefore hath the land become unclean, and I have visited the iniquity thereof upon it,––and the land hath vomited her inhabitants.
26 Ye, therefore, shall observe my statutes and my regulations, and have nothing to do with any of these abominations,––whether the home–born, or the sojourner that sojourneth in your midst;
27 For, all these abominations, have the men of the land done, who were before you; And so the land, hath become unclean:
28 So shall the land not vomit you, through your making it unclean,––as it vomited the nation which was before you.
Joshua 22:17-18
17 Too little for us, was the iniquity of Peor, from which we have not cleansed ourselves, unto this day,––although the plague came upon the assembly of Yahweh;
18 but that, ye, must turn back today from following Yahweh,––though it must needs be that, if, ye, rebel today against Yahweh, then, tomorrow, with all the assembly of Israel, will he be wroth?
Jeremiah 3:1
1 He hath said, If a man send away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man’s, will he return unto her, again? would not that land be, utterly defiled? And, thou, hast been unchaste with many neighbours, and yet [thinkest] to return unto me! Declareth Yahweh.