⁵ “It was because your hearts were hard^(A) that Moses wrote you this law,” Jesus replied. ⁶ “But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.’^{[a](B) 7} ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,^{[b] 8} and the two will become one flesh.’^[c](C) So they are no longer two, but one flesh. ⁹ Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”