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but from the beginning of the creation, a male and a female God did make them;

on this account shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife,

and they shall be -- the two -- for one flesh; so that they are no more two, but one flesh;

what therefore God did join together, let not man put asunder.'

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“But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.’[a](A) ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,[b] and the two will become one flesh.’[c](B) So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 10:6 Gen. 1:27
  2. Mark 10:7 Some early manuscripts do not have and be united to his wife.
  3. Mark 10:8 Gen. 2:24