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And he left there and went to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan, and crowds gathered to him again; and again, as his custom was, he taught them.
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And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?"
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He answered them, "What did Moses command you?"
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They said, "Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce, and to put her away."
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But Jesus said to them, "For your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment.
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But from the beginning of creation, 'God made them male and female.'
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'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife,
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and the two shall become one flesh.' So they are no longer two but one flesh.
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What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder."
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And in the house the disciples asked him again about this matter.