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And Jesus rose up from thence, and came into the coasts of Judaea over Jordan [of Judaea beyond Jordan]; and again the people came together to him, and as he was wont, again he taught them.
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And the Pharisees came, and asked him, Whether it be leaveful to a man to leave his wife? and they tempted him. [+And Pharisees coming nigh, asked him, If it is leaveful to a man to leave, or forsake, his wife? tempting him.]
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And he answered, and said to them, What commanded Moses to you?
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And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of forsaking [Moses suffered to write a libel of forsaking], and to forsake.
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And Jesus answered, and said to them, For the hardness of your heart Moses wrote to you this commandment [+To the hardness of your heart Moses wrote to you this precept/To the hardness of your heart he wrote to you this commandment].
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But from the beginning of creature God made them male and female;
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and said, For this thing a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall draw to his wife [and shall cleave to his wife],
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and they shall be twain in one flesh. And so now they be not twain, but one flesh. [and they shall be two in one flesh. And so now they be not two, but one flesh.]
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Therefore that thing that God hath joined together, no man separate [no man part].
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And again in the house his disciples asked him of the same thing.
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And he said to them to them, Whoever leaveth his wife, and weddeth another, he doeth adultery on her. [And he saith to them, Whoever shall leave his wife, and wed another, he doeth adultery upon her.]