³ Jehoiada chose two wives for Joash, and he had sons and daughters.

⁴ “Haven’t you read the Scriptures?” Jesus replied. “They record that from the beginning ‘God made them male and female.’^[a]” ⁵ And he said, “‘This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.’^{[b] 6} Since they are no longer two but one, let no one split apart what God has joined together.”

⁷ “Then why did Moses say in the law that a man could give his wife a written notice of divorce and send her away?”^[c] they asked.

⁸ Jesus replied, “Moses permitted divorce only as a concession to your hard hearts, but it was not what God had originally intended.

¹⁵ Jehoiada lived to a very old age, finally dying at 130.

⁴ Go instead to my homeland, to my relatives, and find a wife there for my son Isaac.”

²¹ and he settled in the wilderness of Paran. His mother arranged for him to marry a woman from the land of Egypt.

¹⁹ Lamech married two women. The first was named Adah, and the second was Zillah.