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Then the Pharisees came to him, testing him and saying to him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for any reason at all? He answered and said to them, Have you not read how it was that he who made man at the beginning made them man and woman, and said, For this thing shall a man leave father and mother and cleave unto his wife, and the two shall be one flesh?

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Some Pharisees came to him to test him. They asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife(A) for any and every reason?”

“Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’[a](B) 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’[b]?(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 19:4 Gen. 1:27
  2. Matthew 19:5 Gen. 2:24