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/10:2/ Some Pharisees came, and to test him they asked, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?" /10:3/ He answered them, "What did Moses command you?" /10:4/ They said, "Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her." /10:5/ But Jesus said to them, "Because of your hardness of heart he wrote this commandment for you. /10:6/ But from the beginning of creation, 'God made them male and female.' /10:7/ 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, /10:8/ and the two shall become one flesh.' So they are no longer two, but one flesh. /10:9/ Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate."

= Matt 19:3-8
/19:3/ Some Pharisees came to him, and to test him they asked, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any cause?" /19:4/ He answered, "Have you not read that the one who made them at the beginning 'made them male and female,' /19:5/ 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'? /19:6/ So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate." /19:7/ They said to him, "Why then did Moses command us to give a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her?" /19:8/ He said to them, "It was because you were so hard-hearted that Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.

 

John Dominic Crossan