² And some Pharisees came up to Jesus, testing Him, and began to question Him whether it was lawful for a man to ^[a]divorce a wife. ³ And He answered and said to them, “What did Moses command you?” ⁴ And they said, “^(A)Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce and ^[b]send her away.” ⁵ But Jesus said to them, “^[c](B)Because of your hardness of heart he wrote for you this commandment. ⁶ But ^(C)from the beginning of creation, God ^(D)made them male and female. ^7 (E)For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother^[d], ^8 (F)and the two shall become one flesh; so they are no longer two, but one flesh. ⁹ What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”

¹⁰ And in the house the disciples began questioning Him about this again. ¹¹ And He *said to them, “^(G)Whoever ^[e]divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her; ¹² and ^(H)if she herself ^[f]divorces her husband and marries another man, she is committing adultery.”