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From there he went to the area of Judea across the Jordan. A crowd of people, as was so often the case, went along, and he, as he so often did, taught them.
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Pharisees came up, intending to give him a hard time. They asked, "Is it legal for a man to divorce his wife?"
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Jesus said, "What did Moses command?"
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They answered, "Moses gave permission to fill out a certificate of dismissal and divorce her."
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Jesus said, "Moses wrote this command only as a concession to your hardhearted ways.
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In the original creation, God made male and female to be together.
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Because of this, a man leaves father and mother, and in marriage
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he becomes one flesh with a woman - no longer two individuals, but forming a new unity.