³ Jehoiada chose two wives for him, and he had sons and daughters.

⁴ “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’^{[a](A) 5} and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’^[b]?^{(B) 6} So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

⁷ “Why then,” they asked, “did Moses command that a man give his wife a certificate of divorce and send her away?”^(C)

⁸ Jesus replied, “Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning.

¹⁵ Now Jehoiada was old and full of years, and he died at the age of a hundred and thirty.

⁴ but will go to my country and my own relatives^(A) and get a wife for my son Isaac.^(B)”

²¹ While he was living in the Desert of Paran,^(A) his mother got a wife for him^(B) from Egypt.

¹⁹ Lamech married^(A) two women,^(B) one named Adah and the other Zillah.