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It happened when Yeshua had finished these words, he departed from the Galil, and came into the borders of Yehudah beyond the Yarden.
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Great multitudes followed him, and he healed them there.
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Perushim came to him, testing him, and saying, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?"
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He answered, "Haven't you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,
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and said, 'For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife; and the two will become one flesh?'
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So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don't let man tear apart."
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They asked him, "Why then did Moshe command us to give her a bill of divorce, and divorce her?"
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He said to them, "Moshe, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.
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I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery."
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His talmidim said to him, "If this is the case of the man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry."