Some Pharisees approached him, and tested him,* saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any cause whatever?”
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* b He said in reply, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female’
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c and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?
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So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, no human being must separate.”
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* d They said to him, “Then why did Moses command that the man give the woman a bill of divorce and dismiss [her]?”
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He said to them, “Because of the hardness of your hearts Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.
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e I say to you,* whoever divorces his wife (unless the marriage is unlawful) and marries another commits adultery.”
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