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Soon on His feet once more, He enters the district of Judaea and crosses the Jordan: again the people flock to Him, and ere long, as was usual with Him, He was teaching them once more.
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Presently a party of Pharisees come to Him with the question--seeking to entrap Him, "May a man divorce his wife?"
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"What rule did Moses lay down for you?" He answered.
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"Moses," they said, "permitted a man to draw up a written notice of divorce, and to send his wife away."
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"It was in consideration of your stubborn hearts," said Jesus, "that Moses enacted this law for you;
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but from the beginning of the creation the rule was, `Male and female did God make them.
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For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cling to his wife,
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and the two shall be one'; so that they are two no longer, but `one.'
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What, therefore, God has joined together let not man separate."
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Indoors the disciples began questioning Jesus again on the same subject.
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He replied, "Whoever divorces his wife and marries another woman, commits adultery against the first wife;