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

⁴ And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who ^[a]made them at the beginning ^(A)‘made them male and female,’ ⁵ and said, ^(B)‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and ^(C)the two shall become one flesh’? ⁶ So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.”

⁷ They said to Him, ^(D)“Why then did Moses command to give a certificate of divorce, and to put her away?”

⁸ He said to them, “Moses, because of the ^(E)hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your ^(F)wives, but from the beginning it was not so.

Apostasy of Joash

¹⁵ But Jehoiada grew old and was full of days, and he died; he was one hundred and thirty years old when he died.

^4 (A)but you shall go ^(B)to my country and to my family, and take a wife for my son Isaac.”

²¹ He dwelt in the Wilderness of Paran; and his mother ^(A)took a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

¹⁹ Then Lamech took for himself ^(A)two wives: the name of one was Adah, and the name of the second was Zillah.