“Well, he permitted it,” they replied. “He said a man can give his wife a written notice of divorce and send her away.”[a]

But Jesus responded, “He wrote this commandment only as a concession to your hard hearts. But ‘God made them male and female’[b] from the beginning of creation.

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Footnotes

  1. 10:4 See Deut 24:1.
  2. 10:6 Gen 1:27; 5:2.

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