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And rising up thence he comes into the coasts of Judaea, and the other side of the Jordan. And again crowds come together to him, and, as he was accustomed, again he taught them.
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And Pharisees coming to [him] asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away [his] wife? (tempting him).
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But he answering said to them, What did Moses command you?
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And they said, Moses allowed to write a bill of divorce, and to put away.
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And Jesus answering said to them, In view of your hard-heartedness he wrote this commandment for you;
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but from [the] beginning of [the] creation God made them male and female.
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For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be united to his wife,
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and the two shall be one flesh: so that they are no longer two but one flesh.
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What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.
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And again in the house the disciples asked him concerning this.