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4 He answered, "Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female,
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“Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’
5 and said, 'Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'?
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and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?
6 So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate."
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So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
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