Mark 10:6
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New International Version (©2011)
"But at the beginning of creation God 'made them male and female.'

New Living Translation (©2007)
But 'God made them male and female' from the beginning of creation.

English Standard Version (©2001)
But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"But from the beginning of creation, God MADE THEM MALE AND FEMALE.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
But from the beginning of creation God made them male and female.

International Standard Version (©2012)
But from the beginning of creation, 'God made them male and female.'

NET Bible (©2006)
But from the beginning of creation he made them male and female.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
“But from the beginning, God made them male and female.”

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
But God made them male and female in the beginning, at creation.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.

American King James Version
But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.

American Standard Version
But from the beginning of the creation, Male and female made he them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female.

Darby Bible Translation
but from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.

English Revised Version
But from the beginning of the creation, Male and female made he them.

Webster's Bible Translation
But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female.

Weymouth New Testament
but from the beginning of the creation the rule was, 'Male and female did God make them.

World English Bible
But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female.

Young's Literal Translation
but from the beginning of the creation, a male and a female God did make them;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

10:1-12 Wherever Jesus was, the people flocked after him in crowds, and he taught them. Preaching was Christ's constant practice. He here shows that the reason why Moses' law allowed divorce, was such that they ought not to use the permission; it was only for the hardness of their hearts. God himself joined man and wife together; he has fitted them to be comforts and helps for each other. The bond which God has tied, is not to be lightly untied. Let those who are for putting away their wives consider what would become of themselves, if God should deal with them in like manner.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

But from the beginning of the creation,.... Of the world, or of man: , "from the beginning of the creation of the world", is a way of speaking often used by the Jews (r): the phrase "of the creation" is left out in the Syriac and Persic versions; and so it was in Beza's most ancient copy, and it is only read, "from the beginning", as in Mat_19:4,8; see Gill on Matthew 19:4, See Gill on Matthew 19:8.

God made them male and female; the first that were created, Adam and Eve, the first parents of mankind, the first couple that came together were one male and one female; so that there could be no polygamy or divorce: Adam could not have more wives than one: nor could he put away Eve, and marry another; no provision was made for any such usages and practices; See Gill on Matthew 19:4. In the Complutensian edition, it is added, "and said", the following words.

(r) Bereshit Rabba, sect. 3. fol. 2. 3. & sect. 4. fol. 4. 1.

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Jesus' Teaching about Divorce
…5And Jesus answered and said to them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept. 6But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. 7For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and join to his wife; …

Genesis 1:27 So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
Genesis 5:2 He created them male and female and blessed them. And he named them "Mankind" when they were created.
Mark 13:19 because those will be days of distress unequaled from the beginning, when God created the world, until now--and never to be equaled again.
Romans 1:20 For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
2 Peter 3:4 They will say, "Where is this 'coming' he promised? Ever since our ancestors died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation."