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They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to divorce her.”[a]

But Jesus told them, “It was because of your hardness of heart that he wrote this command for you. But from the beginning of creation, ‘God[b] made them male and female.’[c]

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  1. Mark 10:4 Cf. Deut 24:1, 3
  2. Mark 10:6 Other mss. read He
  3. Mark 10:6 Cf. Gen 1:27; 5:2

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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  1. Mark 10:6 Gen. 1:27