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And it came to pass, when Jesus finished these words, he removed from Galilee, and did come to the borders of Judea, beyond the Jordan,
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and great multitudes followed him, and he healed them there.
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And the Pharisees came near to him, tempting him, and saying to him, `Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?'
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And he answering said to them, `Did ye not read, that He who made [them], from the beginning a male and a female made them,
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and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and cleave to his wife, and they shall be -- the two -- for one flesh?
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so that they are no more two, but one flesh; what therefore God did join together, let no man put asunder.'
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They say to him, `Why then did Moses command to give a roll of divorce, and to put her away?'
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He saith to them -- `Moses for your stiffness of heart did suffer you to put away your wives, but from the beginning it hath not been so.
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`And I say to you, that, whoever may put away his wife, if not for whoredom, and may marry another, doth commit adultery; and he who did marry her that hath been put away, doth commit adultery.'
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His disciples say to him, `If the case of the man with the woman is so, it is not good to marry.'
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And he said to them, `All do not receive this word, but those to whom it hath been given;
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for there are eunuchs who from the mother's womb were so born; and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs who kept themselves eunuchs because of the reign of the heavens: he who is able to receive [it] -- let him receive.'
