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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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Pharisees 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 Moses command us to give her a bill of divorce, and divorce her?"
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