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Thus they are no longer two, but one. So then, no one should split apart what God has joined together.”

They said to him, “Then why did Moshe give the commandment that a man should hand his wife a get and divorce her?”[a] He answered, “Moshe allowed you to divorce your wives because your hearts are so hardened. But this is not how it was at the beginning.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 19:7 Deuteronomy 24:1, 3

So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

“Why then,” they asked, “did Moses command that a man give his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away?”(A)

Jesus replied, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning.

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