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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;
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and if a woman puts away her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery."
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One day people were bringing young children to Jesus for Him to touch them, but the disciples interfered.
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Jesus, however, on seeing this, was moved to indignation, and said to them, "Let the little children come to me: do not hinder them; for to those who are childlike the Kingdom of God belongs.