“And if you wish to replace one wife with another, and you have given one of them a qintar, then do not take back anything from it. Would you take it back through slander and manifest sin?” (20)

“And if you wish to replace one wife with another”: here, zawj means a wife, where there has been no marital defiance or indecency on her part. “And you have given one of them a qintar”: that is, a great amount of wealth as a bridal gift. “Then do not take back anything from it”: that is, from the qintar. “Would you take it back?” This is an interrogative used as a rebuke. “Through slander and manifest sin”: these two words are in the accusative in two possible ways: first, through the omission of a preposition; and second, by an implied verb—the sense being: in taking it back, you incur slander and sin. Then He said: “And how could you take it back?”