So they said, “Moses permitted a man[a] to write a certificate of divorce and to send her[b] away.” But Jesus said to them, “He wrote this commandment for you because of your hardness of heart. But from the beginning of creation ‘he made them male and female.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 10:4 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  2. Mark 10:4 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  3. Mark 10:6 A quotation from 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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Footnotes

  1. Mark 10:6 Gen. 1:27