Neville Goddard on Deuteronomy 24:1 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Deuteronomy 24 in context

Scripture Focus

1When 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 24:1

Biblical Context

The passage describes a husband who, finding fault, may write a bill of divorcement and send the wife away.

Neville's Inner Vision

In the inner sense, 'husband' and 'wife' are faculties and beliefs within you. When a state of consciousness finds what it calls uncleanness, it may draft a 'divorcement'—a revision of pattern that sends away an old self-image. The command is not external law but your I AM choosing to alter the relationship of attention to the inner theater. The bill of divorcement is a practiced revision: you declare that the old belief no longer governs your experience, and you release it by giving it away from your house of mind. As you write, you claim a new clause in the covenant: you remain whole whether you 'stay' or 'leave' the outer form, because your reality is your inner state. The moment you feel the I AM, your inner dispositions shift; you no longer judge your partner (or your world) from fear but from love; you welcome 'favour' as your natural perception. Thus the outward change follows the inward decision, not the other way around.

Practice This Now

Take a quiet moment to write a bill of divorcement to a limiting belief (for example, 'I am not whole without X'). Then declare, 'I AM divesting this belief from my house.' Close your eyes, breathe, and imagine the old belief stepping out of a door and the I AM expanding in its place.