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He left that place and went to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan. And crowds again gathered around him; and, as was his custom, he again taught them.
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Some Pharisees came, and to test him they asked, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?"
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He answered them, "What did Moses command you?"
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They said, "Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her."
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But Jesus said to them, "Because of your hardness of heart he wrote this commandment for you.
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But from the beginning of creation, "God made them male and female.'
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"For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife,
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and the two shall become one flesh.' So they are no longer two, but one flesh.
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Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate."
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Then in the house the disciples asked him again about this matter.