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

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13 And this is the second thing you do:
You cover the altar of the Lord with tears,
With weeping and crying;
So He does not regard the offering anymore,
Nor receive it with goodwill from your hands.
14 Yet you say, “For what reason?”
Because the Lord has been witness
Between you and (A)the wife of your youth,
With whom you have dealt treacherously;
(B)Yet she is your companion
And your wife by covenant.

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24 (A)Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and (B)be[a] joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 2:24 Lit. cling

And Jesus answered and said to them, “Because of the hardness of your heart he wrote you this [a]precept.

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 10:5 command

12 Yes, they made their (A)hearts like flint, (B)refusing to hear the law and the words which the Lord of hosts had sent by His Spirit through the former prophets. (C)Thus great wrath came from the Lord of hosts.

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But I say this as a concession, (A)not as a commandment.

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31 So the demons begged Him, saying, “If You cast us out, [a]permit us to go away into the herd of swine.”

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 8:31 NU send us into

15 But Jesus answered and said to him, “Permit it to be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed Him.

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16 Thus says the Lord:

“Stand in the ways and see,
And ask for the (A)old paths, where the good way is,
And walk in it;
Then you will find (B)rest for your souls.
But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.

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“Do not harden your hearts, as in the [a]rebellion,
(A)As in the day of [b]trial in the wilderness,

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 95:8 Or Meribah, lit. Strife, Contention
  2. Psalm 95:8 Or Massah, lit. Trial, Testing

(A)So Noah, with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, went into the ark because of the waters of the flood.

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