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Divorce 1Now when Jesus had finished these sayings, he went away
from Galilee and entered the region of Judea beyond the Jordan.
2And large crowds followed him, and he healed them there. 3And
Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful
to divorce one’s wife for any cause?” 4He answered, “Have you
not read that he who created them from the beginning made them
male and female, 5and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his
father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two
shall become one flesh’? 6So they are no longer two but one
flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man
separate.” 7They said to him, “Why then did Moses command one to
give a certificate of divorce and to send her away?” 8He said to
them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to
divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. 9And I
say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual
immorality, and marries anot