This verse (NO. 230) is a continuation, and a note of first sentence of the preceding verse (NO. 229), that two divorces followed by a reunion are allowed. In the third time the divorce becomes irrevocable, until the woman marries some other man, and the man makes love to her, and then divorces her. In such conditions their reunion and marriage is permissible, if they think this time they can keep within the bounds of Allah, which are made clear for a people who understand.