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They said to Him, Why then did Moses command [us] to give a certificate of divorce and thus to dismiss and repudiate a wife?(A)

He said to them, Because of the hardness (stubbornness and perversity) of your hearts Moses permitted you to dismiss and repudiate and divorce your wives; but from the beginning it has not been [a]so [ordained].

I say to you: whoever dismisses (repudiates, divorces) his wife, except for unchastity, and marries another commits adultery, [b]and he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 19:8 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.
  2. Matthew 19:9 Some manuscripts do not contain this phrase.

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