And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.

[a]Then Jesus answered, and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote this [b]precept unto you.

But at the beginning of the creation (A)God made them male and female:

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 10:5 God did never allow those divorces, which the Law did tolerate.
  2. Mark 10:5 See also Matt. 19. For Moses gave them no commandment to put away their wives, but rather made a good provision for the wives against the stubborn hardness of their husbands.

They said, “Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce and send her away.”(A)

“It was because your hearts were hard(B) that Moses wrote you this law,” Jesus replied. “But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.’[a](C)

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 10:6 Gen. 1:27