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And Jesus answered and said to them, For the hardness of your hearts he wrote this precept for you. But at the first creation, God made them man and woman. And for the sake of this, a man must leave his father and mother and abide by his wife,

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“It was because your hearts were hard(A) that Moses wrote you this law,” Jesus replied. “But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.’[a](B) ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,[b]

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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.