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Now it came to pass, when Jesus had finished these sayings, that He departed from Galilee and came to the region of Judea beyond the Jordan.
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And great multitudes followed Him, and He healed them there.
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The Pharisees also came to Him, testing Him, and saying to Him, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for just any reason?"
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And He answered and said to them, "Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning 'made them male and female,'
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and said, 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'?
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So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate."
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They said to Him, "Why then did Moses command to give a certificate of divorce, and to put her away?"
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He said to them, "Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.