“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] and the two will become one flesh.’[c](C) So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

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  1. Mark 10:6 Gen. 1:27
  2. Mark 10:7 Some early manuscripts do not have and be united to his wife.
  3. Mark 10:8 Gen. 2:24

But Jesus told them, “He wrote this command for you because of the hardness of your hearts.(A) But from the beginning(B) of creation(C) God[a] made them male and female.(D)[b]

For this reason a man will leave(E)
his father and mother
[and be joined to his wife],[c]
and the two will become one flesh.(F)[d]

So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, man must not separate.”(G)

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  1. Mark 10:6 Other mss omit God
  2. Mark 10:6 Gn 1:27; 5:2
  3. Mark 10:7 Other mss omit bracketed text
  4. Mark 10:8 Gn 2:24

But Jesus responded, “He wrote this commandment only as a concession to your hard hearts. But ‘God made them male and female’[a] from the beginning of creation. ‘This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife,[b] and the two are united into one.’[c] Since they are no longer two but one, let no one split apart what God has joined together.”

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Footnotes

  1. 10:6 Gen 1:27; 5:2.
  2. 10:7 Some manuscripts do not include and is joined to his wife.
  3. 10:7-8 Gen 2:24.

Jesus said to them, “Moses wrote this law for you because you are so hard to teach. (A)But in the beginning, at the time of creation, ‘God made them male and female,’ as the scripture says. (B)‘And for this reason a man will leave his father and mother and unite with his wife,[a] and the two will become one.’ So they are no longer two, but one. No human being must separate, then, what God has joined together.”

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  1. Mark 10:7 Some manuscripts do not have and unite with his wife.