Divorce is the act of putting away a wife. Jesus said, “whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement” (3 Nephi 12:31-32).
The Lord asked, “Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement?” He said, “for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away” (2 Nephi 7:1).