Mark 10:2-9 ▼

2 Some Pharisees came to test Him. “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife? they inquired.

3 “What did Moses (drawn out) command you⁺? He replied.

4 They answered, “Moses (drawn out) permitted a man to write his wife a certificate (papyrus roll) of divorce and send her away .”

5 But Jesus (YHWH saves) told them, “Moses wrote this commandment for you⁺ because of your⁺ hardness of heart.

6 However, from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female .’

7 ‘For this reason a man will leave his father {patera} and mother and be united to his wife,

8 and the two will become one flesh .’ So they are no longer two, but one flesh.

9 Therefore what God {Theos} has joined together, let man not separate.