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1 And it was when Jesus finished these words he removed from Galilee, and came from the bounds of Judea beyond Jordan; 2 And many crowds followed him; and he cured them there. 3 And the Pharisees came to him, tempting him, and saying to him, Is it lawful for a man to loose his wife for every cause. 4 And having answered, he said to them, Have ye not read, that he having made from the beginning, made them male and female, 5 And said, For this shall a man leave father and mother, and be joined to his wife: and they two shall be one flesh? 6 So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has yoked together, let not man separate. 7 They say to him, Why then did Moses charge to give a writing of divorce, and loose her? 8 He says to them that Moses for your hard heart permitted you to loose your wives: and from the beginning it was not so. 9 And I say to you, That whoever should loose his wife, except for fornication, and marry another, commits adultery; and he having married the one loosed commits adultery. Matthew 19:1-9, Smith's Literal Translation. Public domain.
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