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He arose from there and came into the borders of Judea and beyond the Jordan. Multitudes came together to him again. As he usually did, he taught them again.
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Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?"
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He answered, "What did Moses command you?"
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They said, "Moses allowed a bill of divorce to be written, and to divorce her."
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But Jesus said to them, "For your hardness of heart, he wrote you this commandment.
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But from the beginning of the creation, 'God made them male and female.
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For this cause will a man leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife,
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and the two will become one flesh,' so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.
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What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate."
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In the house, his disciples asked him again about the same matter.