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And it came to pass, [that] when Jesus had finished these sayings, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judea, beyond Jordan:
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And great multitudes followed him, and he healed them there.
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The Pharisees also came to him, tempting him, and saying to him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
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And he answered and said to them, Have ye not read, that he who made [them], at the beginning made them male and female,
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And said, For this [cause] shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they two shall be one flesh?
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Wherefore they are no more two, but one flesh. Therefore what God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
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They say to him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?
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He saith to them, Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.
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And I say to you, Whoever shall put away his wife, except for lewdness, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoever marrieth her who is put away, committeth adultery.
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His disciples say to him, If the case of the man is so with [his] wife, it is not good to marry.
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But he said to them, All [men] cannot receive this saying, save [they] to whom it is given.