Matthew 19:1-8

Wycliffe Bible

19 And it was done, when Jesus had ended these words, he passed from Galilee, and came into the coasts of Judaea over Jordan.

² And much people followed him [And many companies followed him], and he healed them there.

³ And the Pharisees came to him, tempting him, and said, Whether it be leaveful to a man to leave his wife, for any cause?^[a]

⁴ Which answered, and said to them, Have ye not read, for he that made men at the beginning, made them male and female?

⁵ And he said, For this thing a man shall leave father and mother, and he shall draw to his wife [and he shall cleave, or draw, to his wife]; and they shall be twain in one flesh.

⁶ And so they be not now twain, but one flesh. Therefore man separate not that thing that God hath joined [together]. [Therefore they be not two, but one flesh. Therefore a man part not that thing that God enjoined, or knit together.]

⁷ They say to him, What then commanded Moses, to give a libel of forsaking, and to leave of. [They say to him, What then commanded Moses, to give a little book of forsaking, and to forsake.]

⁸ And he said to them, For Moses, for the hardness of your heart, suffered you to leave your wives [And he saith to them, For Moses, at the hardness of your heart, suffered you to forsake your wives]; but from the beginning it was not so.