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but from the beginning of the creation, a male and a female God did make them;
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on this account shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife,
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and they shall be -- the two -- for one flesh; so that they are no more two, but one flesh;
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what therefore God did join together, let not man put asunder.'
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And in the house again his disciples of the same thing questioned him,
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and he saith to them, `Whoever may put away his wife, and may marry another, doth commit adultery against her;
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and if a woman may put away her husband, and is married to another, she committeth adultery.'
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And they were bringing to him children, that he might touch them, and the disciples were rebuking those bringing them,
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and Jesus having seen, was much displeased, and he said to them, `Suffer the children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the reign of God;
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verily I say to you, whoever may not receive the reign of God, as a child -- he may not enter into it;'
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and having taken them in his arms, having put [his] hands upon them, he was blessing them.