⁶ So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, no person is to separate.”

⁸ He *said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses permitted you to ^[a]divorce your wives; but from the beginning it has not been this way.

¹³ And this is ^[a]another thing you do: you cover the altar of the Lord with tears, with weeping and sighing, because He ^(A)no longer gives attention to the ^[b]offering or accepts it with favor from your hand. ¹⁴ Yet you say, “For what reason?” Because the Lord has been a witness between you and the ^(B)wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt ^(C)treacherously, though she is your marriage companion and your wife by covenant.