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When Yeshua had finished talking about these things, he left the Galil and traveled down the east side of the Yarden River until he passed the border of Y'hudah.
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Great crowds followed him, and he healed them there.
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Some P'rushim came and tried to trap him by asking, "Is it permitted for a man to divorce his wife on any ground whatever?"
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He replied, "Haven't you read that at the beginning the Creator made them male and female,
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and that he said, `For this reason a man should leave his father and mother and be united with his wife, and the two are to become one flesh'?
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Thus they are no longer two, but one. So then, no one should split apart what God has joined together."
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They said to him, "Then why did Moshe give the commandment that a man should hand his wife a get and divorce her?"