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They said to Him, “Why then did Moses command to ‘give her a certificate of divorce and put her away?’”[a]

Yeshua said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. Now I tell you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 19:7 Dt. 24:1, 3.
  2. Matthew 19:9 Some mss. add: and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery. Other mss. say: except for sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.