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Some Pharisees came to test him and asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”

He replied, “What did Moses command you?”

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

But Jesus told them, “He wrote this command for you because of your hard hearts. But from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female.[b] For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.[c] So they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

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