⁴ “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’^[a](A)

⁵ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’^[a]?^(A)

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